A half arsed and rushed attempt....

Rating: 3/10 (1 March 2018)

I really wanted to like Justice League. I wasn't overly impressed with BvS, but thought perhaps JL would save the franchise. Nothing in this film feels natural, everything seems dis-attached. Its almost as if this film was made by separate teems working without any kind of correspondence.
The score is abysmal, it feels completely separate to what is happening in the picture. As if someone is playing generic "movie music" in the background without looking at whats happening on screen. The Sound effects production is poor at best, with certain spot effects feeling completely out of place, and others feeling generic, as if just placed there to "get the job out of the way".
The CGI is difficult to swallow, the quality of Steppenwolf's CGI character animation is as bad as the infamous end scene in Scorpion King. Badly animated, rigid and that stupid expression on his face makes the character difficult to identify with.
Questionable effects quality plagues this film, sets look like sets, and some of the green screening seems very obvious, with backgrounds too contrasted with the foreground, making the character feel disconnected to whats happening in the story. Lighting also feels too "set like".
Dialogue feels too close and disconnected to the picture, the ADR work is too obvious, with the general audio mix being the worst I've heard in years.
I also found Barry Allen very irritating. Stupid attempts at a comic relief made his character annoying which I quite frankly found repugnant.
I know I am ranting on about tech stuff, I dont claim to be an expert, but as a consumer, I have become accustomed to a certain level of technical quality, and at 300 million budget, I really feel that a lot more could have been done here. Its a half arsed attempt. Did everyone working on this picture decide to give up on it half way through making it? It seems that way.
"Get it out the door so we can do the next Disney film" must of been uttered by someone as some point during the making of this film.
Having said all of this, I did enjoy small segments of the action sequences. The fight between The Flash and Superman was well done, hence the 3 stars.