A fine watch.

Rating: 8/10 (17 November 2017)

Justice League is a lot faster moving than Dawn of Justice and a lot less torn apart than Suicide Squad. It hits the mark the same as Wonder Woman in being palatable and giving some of the heart back to our old superhero friends.
Batman and Wonder Woman are back and are pretty good. Aqua Man has a great attitude. The Flash is a slightly unfunny kid. Green Lantern only appears in a flashback and the fifth member of the league is instead Cyborg in his early development who is black and unnecessarily played for race humour.
The villain starts off okay but he isn't focused on very well at all and despite being more powerful than each individual, I felt he could have been defeated by the above 5 heroes combined. However they go ahead and bring Superman back making the villain zero challenge which is the biggest problem the film has.
Rant time. Doomsday in the previous Justice film was a suitably epic foe that required Superman's involvement but this foe really didn't need Superman resurrected yet and me having avoided trailers, them doing so surprised me. Fair enough the reason was partly pinned to Batman's guilt but with a foe already on the scene, it just seemed irresponsible to risk bringing a rogue Superman into the picture.
It also surprised me from a larger franchise point of view as the foe, as I've said, could have easily been defeated by a bit of effort by the other 5. They could have kept Superman returning for the next movie at least, with a much larger fight on their hands. This leads to another issue which was probably in the comics too, that Superman is over powered. He's not a great team member as he overshadow's everyone's abilities being as fast as The Flash etc. All the more reason to leave him dead as long as possible. Anyway that's the personal rant over. I do think they dented their opportunity to make lots of character focused movies which I would love to have seen, but understand they might not have the confidence in the results from past experiences which is a shame.
Overall this movie was quite agreeable. I loved the rogue Superman even though it didn't last long. They treated Superman well (he's my favourite superhero/character) and redeemed both him and Batman from their broody hatred of one-another. A fine watch.