Injustice League

Rating: 7/10 (10 December 2017)

Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice and Man of Steel are my favorite films to date in the DCEU. Wonder Woman is third. Suicide Squad and Justice League will battle for fourth. Hans Zimmer's music is the first thing that drops this movie down a notch for me. The intense Man of Steel score was incredible. The music any time Bruce Wayne or Batman was on the screen in BvS drew you right in. It's all missing in Justice League. Go back and re-watch Superman taking out the world engine in Man of Steel, or re-watch the "They were hunters." scene from BvS. The music took those movies to levels that made you lock into the mood or the moment. The special FX are also inferior here. You can tell Zack Snyder didn't work on a lot of these scenes that appear in the final cut. I'm even more glad I signed that petition for the Snyder cut now. Truthfully, everything BvS was setting up just fell right off a cliff in this movie. The end of BvS had you fired up with anticipation. Justice League was like... let's just phone it in. Wonder Woman was presented masterfully in her stand alone film. She was gorgeous in JL, sure... but her character even lacked. Superman's return fell short. Batman/Bruce Wayne often felt without purpose or drive in the second half of the film.