Why it didn't work for me ...

Rating: 6/10 (8 December 2017)

1- Henry Cavill in slow motion is a HELL NO! He lacked the grace necessary for the motions and was like the Incredible Hulk with considerable clumsiness. The scenes where he would start an assault squaring his massive hairy chest and approach others with an over extension of chest muscles made me chuckle audibly. It reminded me of fat kids giving skinny kids a "belly butting" instead of headbutting. This is not the desired effect in an audience. My friends and I would laugh about it later. I think Cavill might want to learn some type of graceful art of motion like ballet or aikido or whatever it is to smooth out the clumsiness. He acted the angry scenes in a surprisingly unboring way. I always thought Cavill lacks the necessary passion to deliver "wrath". That said, I was not totally convinced but less skeptic of him. He and Lois alone have below zero chemistry and their tender moments are flat. I have seen this lack of real chemistry as a constant in Cavills movies as if he's too preoccupied with himself to engage in an emotionally intense scene. He hits a particular plateau that he can't go above. But rest assured ladies, he's as handsome as ever. He might want to fix those twisted teeth at the bottom row though if he will keep howling and growling in a close up taken from above. Blame the director.
2- Wonder Woman is offensively middle of the road. I'm sorry but I refuse to take her seriously when I can see the entire crotch of her knickers while she's fighting crime, and her butt cleft from the back. Both in close up and both centre screen. The script wanted to make her the gentle and loving glue of a team of rowdy boys but honestly Gal Gadot lacks the necessary charm to deliver on that. She's a lovely girl.. lovely juuuust enough to get the approval of the moms of little girls fans of Wonder Woman, but not that lovely that she makes a man's girlfriend jealous, and not strong enough to intimidate geeks and insecure people .. she's perfectly middle of everything and in that there shall be no wonder in Wonder Woman at all. She's supermarket quality vanilla ice cream. Eager not to dazzle.
3- Ezra Miller was annoying, boyish not in a nice way, silly rather. Bad acting and delivering some of the most irrelevant lines in superhero history! He tried to come across as the super fast flash instead his performance came across as anxious, pretentious and unsure.
4- Ben Affleck as the world weary Batman: Gtf out of here! It's not Shakespeare. He however seemed to be the only real person in the movie who had emotions that made any sense. I'm Batman's number one fan and let me tell you something; Batman has superpowers. His superpower is intelligence. He's the most intelligent superhero of them all. While all of them were getting their asses whopped by Superman and he was literally running them into the ground, Batman controlled him and got results without lifting a finger! In the comics Batman is a scientist with superior intelligence. All his weapons and technologies are his own inventions. His superpowers are intelligence and science. It is his intelligence that brings back Superman to life and his intelligence gets Superman back into action. It's his intelligence that brings the Justice League together in a first place. So stop disrespecting Batman. When Ben Affleck said that Batman's superpower was that he was rich, I thought "No, he's rich because super smart and that's his superpower. Read the comics!!
5- Jason Momoa: He's the reason why I gave this movie 4 stars just for Jason and the rest get two more stars lol .. what a feral, raw, passionate performer. Shame his role in the movie was kinda lame. More potent scenes should have been written for Aquaman instead of him street fighting with a fork!
6- The Anazonians: They came across as not the most intelligent in the bunch in this movies. Fight scenes were messy and desperate. Why do they launch their weapons at energy and why are you not remotely ready for what seemed to be inevitable? The scene were Stepoenwolf flicks their weapons off with his finger says it all. Irrelevant battle.
7- Steppenwolf: what a waste of good material. Just telling us the story of that guy at the beginning would have pumped up the entire movie. Instead, Wonder Woman sighs and moans two clichéd lame lines about who he is and that's it. And as lamely as he comes, he goes. Yaaaawn.
All that said the movie is a good pop corn movie. ... you won't be blown away but you won't be bored either.