Too much effect for too simple and basic story (the same as always)

Rating: 4/10 (26 January 2018)

It is very likely that the movie Justice League is one of the worst movies I have seen this year. Two hours of absolute scandal, a storm of special effects that sometimes even feels too much. Besides the movie does not have a single drama scene that lasts more than two minutes and I really feel the director did this to avoid the viewer from falling asleep. When other drama sci-fi like Blade Runner 2049, Ex Machina or Minority Report have a silent, we wonder, we believe, we brainstorm, we try to get what's going on and what is about to happen, but in Justice League it just makes the lack of this movie more evident, lack of any drama beyond 'let's save the world for one last time (again)'. The issue here is that director Zach Snyder seems to have given up on this and still rely on the fandom to score the box office promised to the producers. DC Comics was looking for its Avengers series, and I believe they have done a movie that needed to be done, but it is sad that the only thing this has done is to fill a blank space. The story begins with an astonishing Gal Gadot, pushing again for women in superhero movies, saving people from being killed by an armed bank robber. I wasn't expecting that. Then Ben Affleck, who I don't know why he is still Batman, tries to play the cool but serious guy with a Jeremy Irons that just seems too much for Alfred, an old and smart butler, please don't do this to Irons again. Then, this unnecessary fit, tattooed and mentally disturbed Aquaman plays the 'get out of my lawn' role, until, of course, he doesn't. It is great they added 'The Flash', because it is really the only light in this, he is the only unpredictable character. Maybe because we have not seen him in ten other movies. Oh, and they bring Superman back to life, perhaps to make another three movies of him saving humanity, we'll see. I am not going to go over the plot because it is quite easy to guess and it will be unlikely to fail. Spectacular visual effects need to have a bit of a story and this feels like the same but in a different container. And this is really upsetting me because it is becoming a popular practice.