Man of Steel, Batman v Superman and Justice League are Zack Snyders vision to set up the story of Superman. He was asked once if he'd make a Superman movie and he said no, because Superman is boring. Not because he can beat anyone - the reason most people cite for him being boring, but because he's always been inherently good, known what to do and is loved by all. He said back then that if he were to make a movie of Superman he would show why he is all of those things. So in Man of Steel, Snyder gives Superman this confusion about his life, the story of a good man who feels alone and trying to find his place in the world. Then gives him the knowledge of who he is, but makes the remainder of his people a bunch of world killing villains. Then people wonder why Superman doesn't grin all the time. "Hey kid, you're alone in the Universe and people always fear what they don't understand, oh but wait, your uncle twice removed came here because you sent him a signal and wants to kill everything you've ever known and loved and it's kinda your fault for not being one-dimensional and accepting what you have without question, but be a good boy and smile a lot, OK? Because that's what really matters". So Superman is left in a position where either he kills Zod, or Zod is not only going to kill the family right in front of them, but vows to kill every single human on Earth. So he kills Zod. Hard choice I'm sure. Only after he does, he feels gut-wrenching pain and torment for having done it.
So then Batman v Superman comes out and builds on what happened in Man of Steel - which was a Superhero on his first day on the job who couldn't actually draw the Kryptonians away from the City, because they weren't overly interested in fighting him, they wanted to stay in the City of Metropolis and terra-form the Earth into Krypton and kill 7 billion people and God only knows how many other living things, so in the end a fair amount of a big city was destroyed and thousands of people died. Batman saw it all from Ground Zero and wasn't happy. He didn't see Superman as a villain, but as a potential threat in the future given the track record of good people he knew, so decided to take him out because who else could if he ever turned bad? Long story short, Batman realises he's become Joe Chill, the guy who killed his parents (which was the whole point of the Martha sequence, not simply to make him realise that their mothers had the same name) and so Batman is turned good again by Superman (Yay for Super) and then Wonder Woman jumps in as they all fight Doomsday and Superman sacrifices his life to save the woman he loves. (Awww)
However, Superman being the comic incarnation of Jesus, is going to rise again, and when he does, he'll have earned the respect and admiration of the world as their saviour, the friendship of Batman, learned why even in extreme circumstances killing must be the absolute last resort and found his place in the world. All of the qualities Zack Snyder said was boring about Superman, he has given Superman a reason to have them. And so Justice League will complete Zack Snyders Superman Origin Trilogy.
Now, as much as I think that all of that is really quite clever, as well as Suicide Squad capitalising on the 'death' of Superman to find a reason to exist, the DCEU movies so far have problems, and they are largely due to editing and a few poorer ideas.
Superman fighting the world engine was probably something that worked on paper but not really in reality, and General Swanwicks "Are you Effing stupid?" at the end of MoS was terrible, and I personally saw no reason for the colour pallet to be blue all the way through. Not that I have anything against the blue hue, but it would have served better at times the story was more bleak and to redden it up a bit when the story was brighter, to give the viewer a distinction and give the blue hue a purpose.
The 3 hour cut of BvS was a very good movie, and was the original cut of the film, but the execs at WB got nervous, forgot about 6 3 hour Middle Earth movies and decided kids couldn't sit on their arse for that amount of time. They were wrong and because of it, they turned an excellent movie into a very divisive one.
Suicide Squad was 2 different movies made by 2 groups of people that had been slung together. David Ayer made one, and the WB exec made the other. Then they got a test audience to sit through lots of different parts of the movie to find out which bits they liked, and which bits they didn't and then made David Ayer put the liked bits in - to hell with continuity and story telling, lets fudge a film around what the audience thinks they want, because Snakes on a Plane was awesome.
If you ask me, what the DCEU needs, over and above ANYTHING else, is someone who'll tell the studio executives to stay the hell out of the editing room, because Fan4stic was a disaster and is what happens when execs over-rule the movie makers. Only when that happens (and dear God please let Patty Jenkins have the final say on Wonder Woman) can you then start to worry about and fix things like the World Engine fight, poor dialogue moments, Lex Luthors sexual tension with a gummy bear and Enchantress's voice. But those are little things against movies that are obviously poorly pieced together in the editing room because execs get the final say.
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