Not really a movie, just a collection of video game cut-scenes

Rating: 3/10 (12 February 2017)

It baffles me how a studio can pump so much money into a particular project and then just spray it up the wall. Ben Affleck as Batman / Bruce Wayne plus Jeremy Irons are really the only decent things in this (Lawrence Fishburne as Perry White is good too, in the limited screen time he gets).
I can give it a mark for some interesting concepts on holding superheroes accountable and showing the devastation that is left behind, but then they are only given lip service.
The special effects are just laughable in places. In the the climatic showdown, there's not a shred of tension to be felt as CGI characters fly all over the place like a kids cartoon.
Back in the day movies actually used to start out with a story and then a script. It didn't matter how big the villain was or how much destruction took place, if you built the characters up, wrote them well and wound the stakes up, it could make for exciting movies, irrespective of how good or bad the special effects were. The first two Christopher Reeve Superman movies (even, I think, number III as well) generated more thrills throughout at the merest fraction of a budget.
Honestly, I think this maybe ties with Superman IV as the worst Superman movie (Man of Steel is only marginally better), and it's probably also level pegging with Batman and Robin as the worst movie to feature Batman.
I would still be very interested to see the standalone Batman movie with Ben Affleck as he did a very good job with a poor script and poor story to make for a believable character.
This won't stop the Justice League movement continuing and I'm sure this will turn out to be a money-making franchise for DC, but they are going to need to make far better movies if they want to take a place in movie history for the right reasons.
In terms of big screen entertainment, this is just a very poorly put together movie (and I use the term movie loosely) and forgettable in so many ways (music, scenes, performances, script, effects).
This one is for die-hard DC & comic book fans only.