What Went Wrong With Justice League?

Rating: 6/10 (10 March 2019)

Overall Perspective:
It does not live up the potential of the brand. It is important note that the circumstances that led up the film being helmed by the two separate directors are both tragic and completely outside of the control of anyone involved that being said it did not exactly do the film any favours while most of time it is hard to tell the Zack Synder scenes from the Joss Whedon's ones. It is not possible to omit fact that the film had two directors that affected and apparent overall film pacing and tone. However, it is very apparent in the film's pacing and overall tone, while pacing could be racked up to the film short runtime more on that later but by the way the tone is extremely inconsistent it is almost as if they are tried to keep the gritty down-to-the earth feel of the previous DC films while injecting some comedic moments to lighten mood. These moments are more likely Whedon's influenced as he is known for those kind of character interactions while they do usually produce at least chuckle from audiences the fact that the heroes are cracking a lot of jokes sometimes sort of dire times is a bit odd to say the least and while it was reported that a lot of the post production time was spent to meld Synder and Whedon's tones together seamlessly did not really work out super well. Overall the movie just leaves impression of disjointed and unpolished.
The Run Time:
Duration of movie was around 130 minutes including the mid and post credits. This is fairly reasonable Hollywood movie. However, the Justice League does not meant to be short at all. It was not until a mandate from the higher-ups at Warner Brothers came down. It is definitely shows the first hour so the film was incredibly badly paced and jumps all over place there are scenes that only last a few seconds before cutting away completely unrelated. Frankly, it is a little bit jarring. The worst part of the movie, it was easy for audience to figure out there was something missing at several points throughout film. Idea was introduced only to get zero pay off such as Batman supposed quilt over the death of superman which was only offhandedly mentioned.
Characterisation:
Another serious problem in the movie was the film was so centred around its character the audience actually get very little in the way of characterisation. Unfortunately, outside of a few selected moments in the film, the only character that we see that has any sort of serious growth is Diana who deals with the loss of Steve Trevor and Wonder Woman and her place in the world. Beyond that overall the audience have hint at Cyborg a little bit flash and the Apper characters. Technically development does not present Aquoman, Flash, Cyborg background who were newly introduced in this film. In most movies, the presentations of comic heroes are not accurate as in the comic books. These new three characters really could have used the audience does not know those new characters in the film content. However, most entertaining part of the movie was the flash scenes. He was always entertaining the audiences but not as accurate as in the comic books.
Challenge to Marvel Cinematic Universe:
The biggest problem with DC movies overall not just the Justice League and that is the fact that they are desperately trying to play catch-up with their competitors the Marvel cinematic universe (MCU). When Marvel and Disney launch the MCU, no one expected it to be juggernaut that it is today. Over course of the ten years they have put out seventeen films all of which have been considered as successes. Therefore, DC comics wanted to get in on the superhero film craze. The problem is Marvel already released five films before the DC comics were making it to their big team up. All the MCU were solo films meant to introduce audiences to the main line-up DC has gone another route. It has not done any favours to DC Cinematic Universe. They have rushed to try to put out of four that came before the Justice league one of the movie was a sort of mini team-up movie and another one had basically nothing to do with the Justice League at all that being suicide squad. The audience have not really gotten any time to get adjusted to DC Universe or the characters have not mentioned the fact that the films are only tangentially connected them at best. Overall the film was rushed, Computer-generated imagery (CGI) not exactly look great such as the villain Steppenwolf in the movie looks like character out of the game console Sony Playstation 2 (PS2) video game. DC universe can definitely produce better movie and unfortunately all of points mentioned above hit the Justice League hard. All the characters presented in the movie should have had their own solo films. Despite of all these setbacks DC film universe does still have some potential. The Justice league despite of all flaws could lead to the next big success for the franchise. DC and Warner Brother has to do is to learn from their mistakes.