Getting Better

Rating: 8/10 (17 November 2017)

I saw "Justice League", starring Ben Affleck-Live By Night, He's Just Not That Into You; Gal Gadot-Keeping Up With the Joneses, Knight and Day; Ezra Miller-Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them, Trainwreck; Jason Momoa-Bullet to the Head, Game of Thrones_tv; Ray Fisher-In his first movie, not counting his brief cameo in Batman v Superman and the voice of Ciaran Hinds-Game of Thrones_tv, The Woman in Black. This is the movie I've been waiting for. All the big guns from DC in one movie-well, most of the big guns, anyways-Batman, Superman, Wonder Woman, Flash, Aquaman and Cyborg. After Batman v Superman-which I thought looked great but the story could have been better-I was a little worried how this one would turn out. It has the same director, Zack Snyder, but this one actually did turn out better, which might be because I read that Joss Whedon came in to finish the movie after Zack had a death in his family. This one starts right after Batman v Superman ended, with Henry/Superman being dead and criminals are having a field day running rampant through the streets. Ben/Batman is trying to keep things under control when he comes across a para-demon- a winged insect looking creature from Apokolipse, an evil planet under the control of Darkseid. Ben consults with Gal/Wonder Woman, who has knowledge of the para-demons and their current boss, Ciaran/Steppenwolf-a general that works for Darkseid. Ben tries to round up any and all metahumans he can find, which include Ezra/Flash, Jason/Aquaman and Ray/Cyborg. Mother Boxes play a big part in the plot-comic book fans know what I'm talking about. They are a sophisticated technology that looks like a square box, but they are very powerful and sometimes used to teleport between places a lot. Another thing I liked was that they used the song from the trailers- Come Together as covered by Gary Clarke Jr-in the end credits. There is a brief scene where a combatant-who wears a powerful piece of jewelry-is spotted in a battle and there are 2 scenes at the very end. One as the end credits start-a recreation of a famous story line from the comics-and one after the credits-a teaser with 2 villains giving plot points to the next movie. It's rated "PG-13" for sci-fi violence and action and has a running time of 1 hour & 59 minutes. I really enjoyed it and would buy it on Blu-Ray.