Originally posted by Darth Thor
That said I think it might have been too early for a Batman this brutal, right after the Nolan series, where him not killing was made into a pretty big part of his moral code.
We've known this film was based in part on Miller's TDKR, so the brutality (most of it at least) fits in, imo.
Granted, Synder did a shit-job in explaining why and there was a lot that the GA who isn't aware of the comic-history would be left thinking "wtf"