I was pretty disappointed by both. Walked into the movie theatre wanting to love them, left really annoyed.
That said, Civil War is a much better movie, because despite lacking any of the weight and impact that a Civil War movie should have had, it's a fun popcorn flick throughout. If someone just wants to watch a spectacle with lots of humor, and heroes kicking each other around, this movie is aces. It's paced well, and it ticks all the boxes it needs to make sure you're entertained throughout.
BvS is the opposite, I appreciate the fact that it tried to create an appropriate amount of weight to the situation, but it's poorly paced, severely lacking in contrast for the two titular characters, and worst of all, it's built around a Looney toon of a Lex Luther, who's plan (and by extension the movie's plot) is completely ridiculous, and full of more holes than Swiss cheese to boot. And while the action scenes are amazing, they are far too few and far between to distract you from all of that.
It's very frustrating to me, because if I could just get a combination of DC's willingness to actually explore the darker aspects of their stories, and take risks, with Marvel's ability to execute, then I'd actually get what I want to see. Sadly, Marvel is content to release one formulaic popcorn flick after another while keeping the status quo from story to story as unchanged as possible, while DC sort of has the right idea, but it's trapped in a dark basement with Zack Snyder who's so desperate to catch lightning in a bottle that he keeps grasping at the dead air around it
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