Underwhelming

Rating: 4/10 (18 November 2017)

If I were to never have seen Justice League, I don't think I would have missed anything. It lacks any real sense of suspense or any kind of emotional stakes. They keep saying over and over about how Steppenwolf (Ciarán Hinds) is going to destroy the world and everything will be lost, but I don't feel it. Justice League uses a lot of blatant explanation and exposition in order to try to make you care for these characters and their quest, but it doesn't work. I feel entirely indifferent to what is happening on screen. I don't hate what is happening; I just don't care about it at all. The film certainly feels like it has undergone extensive re-shoots. For the first thirty minutes or so, the movie just moves scene to scene to scene. There is no real connective tissue bringing these scenes together; they all just happen one after another. I think this is where Joss Whedon tried to reshape a lot of the movie, and the result is a start-stop jagged feel that breaks any sort of investment I have each time the movie abruptly decides to move on to something else. It feels like there's a lot more to the story that has either been cut out, or re-shot to maneuver around, and it makes it all feel superficial. Because so much work has gone into reshaping and reworking this movie, nothing actually feels authentic. I am not immersed in the story, because the story is a Franksteined-together collection of two visions...