Quote Originally Posted by Agent Z View Post
In BvS, Clark is on the opposite side of Bruce because Bruce is the one acting evil not Clark. That leaves only the JL movie where he is briefly brainwashed. For most of the DCEU, Clark is unambiguously a good if flawed character.
This is exactly right.

Bruce is running around branding criminals, knowing it will get them murdered in prison, while the press and the police stand by and let it happen. Clark recognizes the injustice inherent in the Batman's "reign of terror" and tries to stop it. Bruce is Luthor's dupe. Clark is a good man trying his best to do good without doing harm in a complex world.

One of the issues I think the movie had, is that it presents Bruce as more of the protagonist than Clark, so we see a lot of "The Superman" through his eyes - and he thinks Superman is a monster. Hell, Clark has fewer than fifty lines of dialogue in the theatrical cut! But Clark also has a much more nuanced and complicated story arc, and frankly he needed more screen time than he got, and he needed it more than Bruce did.