Okay... I guess? Sort of...

Rating: 5/10 (20 November 2017)

I didn't like Justice League nor did I dislike it. Sure, it has its moments, but then it is sort of.. boring. The story picks up mostly from were it left in the Batman v Superman film, except that this time Bruce Wayne is not acting like a psycho. This time we are introduced to Cyborg, Flash and Aquaman. Cyborg is a very likable character, but there's not enough time to introduce him. So it looks like his story is quite an interesting tale, with an underlying tragedy, but we never get to really learn anything about it. We only know that he is supposed to be dead and this alien artifact was used by his dad to reconstruct him as a cyborg or something along those lines. Flash is mostly the comic relief. He is also briefly introduced, we learn that his mother is dead and his father was arrested in suspicion of her killing, but he thinks he is innocent. Aquaman is a bad-arse who likes helping poor communities in Norway. When Bruce Wayne approaches him he tell him he works alone and later on he joins the league for no apparent reason. We are quickly told that he belongs to the Antlantean people and he has some powers under water (duh) and that pretty much sums it up.
So, Earth has these alien cubes which are.. powerful. And there is a bad guy called Steppenwolf, who tried to conquer Earth millennia ago with the help of those cubes. The Earth-dwellers (humans, atlanteans, amazons, gods, etc) amassed a huge army to stop him and hid the cubes. Now it seems Lex Luthor's adventures with the kryptonean ship somehow woke Steppenwolf up. He wants the cubes and wants to conquer Earth, because that's what a bad guy does. When all heroes realise there is a serious threat, they join Batman to fight him. But Bruce Wayne thinks they need Superman. Now, the league has one of the cubes because of Cyborg. Somehow Bruce Wayne comes to the conclusion that the cube can revive Superman and so it does. Superman temporarily goes really crazy because he can't remember who he is, but after a couple of hours with Lois Lane he is back to himself.
The League then locates Steppenwolf in Russia or something similar, and he now has all the cubes. They fight with him. When Cyborg and Superman start separating the cubes, Wonder- Woman can fight Steppenwolf solo. She isn't the only one, everyone has a go and in the end they split the cubes with no serious consequences and Steppenwolf dies or something. And so it ends.
As I said, it's boring. And it doesn't make much sense. The first time over they needed a massive army to stop the bad guy, and now six people can do the same job. Sorry, I'm not convinced. Someone got the story wrong here, either the villain is waaay weaker than expected, or the League is too damn strong.
Either way, most main characters are very one-dimensional. DC has been repeating over and over again a huge mistake and it doesn't take much intelligence to pinpoint the problem: They should create a film for every single hero before throwing them together inside a box and selling it. I keep saying that The Dark Knight was a masterpiece of hero films and they were right to avoid making a new Batman too soon. But they are wasting time and huge amounts of money doing these crappy films. The only heroes with any kind of back-story are Superman and Wonder-Woman. Everyone wants to see more of them, we already met them, we already know about Superman's dad dying in the hurricane, his doubts about who he is and where is he from; we saw Diana's despair after she failed to stop the World War; we saw these characters grow and mature. We can relate to them because we know their story. Now, what's the story behind Cyborg? And behind Flash and Aquaman? What about Steppenwolf? We know nothing of these guys, just rumours. Nobody cares. The plot is too weak. So Steppenwolf wants to conquer Earth. Why? What's so special about Earth? Can't he conquer something else? Doesn't he have a plan? Don't we need more people to stop this guy? Can't it be more difficult? Say, get the League to recover one of the cubes or something, and continue the story later. Why all the haste? Show us small victories, difficult decisions, doubts, a bit of drama. This film doesn't have anything like that.
So let me finish by stressing this: This film is boring! Boring! DC is living in denial. If anyone with sense from DC Comics one day reads this, put this into your small heads: DC's films are spiraling out of control. You are doing it wrong. Stop doing it wrong. Is not that difficult. Get a decent writer. Whomever is heading this madness, has no idea what s/he is doing. Sack this person.
Wonder-Woman is a nice film. It stands by itself and is really cool. But Justice League... meh.
Oh yes, CGI is passable. Sometimes is good, sometimes is awful. That's a minor issue at this point.