The Worst Possible Way to Spend Three Hundred Million Dollars.

Rating: 2/10 (22 April 2020)

This movie is one of the worst big budget films I have ever seen. This film fails both as a Justice League story and as a film itself. Every single aspect of this film ranges from substandard to absolute garbage.
Let's start with the most important aspect that all movies should be stellar at. The main characters. If the main characters are not interesting, then people will not like your film. Plain and simple. Apparently the writers behind Justice League clearly did not know nor care about this. Lets start with Batman.
Batman in this film is completely useless. While everyone else in the film is some sort of super-powered alien or hero who can do all sorts of crazy things, Batman is just a human. His main part to play in the film is to bring the Justice League together, but after he does that he sort of hangs around in the background shooting a bunch of PS 2 aliens ( with a gun?). A clever writer would have found a way of keeping Batman in the story in some creative way, but this is the same person who wrote BvS and The Rise of Skywalker, so I'm not to surprised. Also, despite being a cold blooded killer in the previous movie, now he's just a rich guy who cracks jokes. It's like they were trying to make him similar to Iron Man, except it does not fit well with what we have been shown before.
Wonder Women is extremely boring in this film. She does absolutely nothing but punch and pose most of the time, and this is not helped by the fact that Gal Godot is not a good actress. Her character has no flaws, no character arc, no problems, nothing at all that could make her somewhat interesting. She's just there.
Aquaman is another character who does absolutely nothing in this film (Noticing a pattern?). His character can only be described as 'cool guy who shouts a lot'. Other than that, he just punches aliens and throws his trident occasionally. Not much to say there.
The Flash in this movie is the worst depiction of the character I have seen in any form of media. They basically turned him into a discount Spider-Man. I think he is supposed to be the comedy relief of the film, except that pretty much everyone is making jokes all the time. They tried to make a father/son relationship with him and Batman, but like everything else in the film, it comes of as forced and annoying.
Cyborg is another character who is shoved to the side for most of the runtime. I get it, it's pretty hard to give every character a lot of screen time when you have a main cast of six characters. The thing is though, Cyborg is the only character in the entire movie who has somewhat of an arc. His thing is that he used to be a human but an accident destroyed his body so now he is 95% robot. It is not the most engaging of character arcs, and it's pretty cliche, but I guess it's better than nothing. The problem is, his arc is pretty much forgotten about half way through the film. Maybe the studio simply cut out all his scenes because they were desperate to make sure the film's length was under 2 hours, I don't know.
Superman comes back from the dead in the stupidest, most idiotic way possible. And instead of actually doing something captivating with his resurrection, he wakes up confused for a while and then just becomes a hero again. So much wasted potential. Also the terrible CGI mustache does not make things any better.
Steppenwolfe is the main villain of the film, and they could not have made a more bland, generic, forgettable villain. His motivation, plan, goals, none of it makes any sense whatsoever. And his terrible design feels, like many have said, something straight out of a video game from fifteen years ago.
The fact that Henry Cavil's mustache is not the worst special effect in the film just goes to show how truly horrendous the CGI is. Everything is over saturated, like a Micheal Bay film. The acting is really dull, you can tell most of the actors were really bored. The only redeemable thing about the film is that it's really funny in a so bad it's good way. But good Lord, what an absolute waste of money.