More Cons Than Pros

Rating: 4/10 (20 November 2017)

It's fun to see everyone together and some of the more intimate character-based scenes are nice, but far too much of this film consists of overwhelming spectacle that is undercut because of how utterly uninteresting the villain and main plot are.
JL deserves credit for its fights not being weightless. There is a sense of impact and the action is very loud. A few of the big sequences, particularly one involving the Amazons, even qualify as imaginative and enjoyable. Not enough, though. In Wonder Woman, the good stuff was most of the film and the underwhelming CGI boss could be overlooked. Here, the balance is flipped.
The good news is that Gal Gadot is still luminous as Diana and some of the newcomers (Cyborg, Flash) have readily-evident potential. The DC films could start getting better from here, or in the case of WW, get back to being good. I'm thoroughly unimpressed with this iteration of Batman, however. We knew we had it good with the Nolan trilogy, but only now do we see just how good we had it.