Frustratingly poor - and yet it could have been so good.

Rating: 4/10 (6 April 2018)

I love DC, I have done since I was a child (more years ago than I care to admit) - so it really hurts to say what an almighty mess this movie is. Affleck, Gadot, Cavill, Momoa, Miller, and Fisher all do well considering what they ended up with. Each is a great fit for their character and in the right movie this League would shine - but this isn't that movie. I loved Man of Steel and Wonder Woman, and enjoyed Batman v Superman, but the tonal shift here and inconsistency from one scene to the next - an obvious result of the well-publicised director change for reshoots - jar so badly that the movie ends up looking as though it doesn't know what it wants to be. In addition, some of the CGI is really, really poor to the extent of genuinely looking unfinished. The animated movie Justice League: War (2014) tells basically the same story as Justice League, both heavily inspired by the New 52 comic arc Justice League: Origin (JLW is actually a direct adaptation), and whilst JLW may not resach the very top tier of DC animations it's still far better than JL. THIS is the first ever live-action, big-screen, star-studded Justice League movie - and it's heartbreaking.
Likeable and charismatic leads, some nice visuals that somehow survived the reshoot hatchet job, and the ghost of a good movie that you occasionally glimpse of out of the corner of your eye get this movie a 6/10. Without them it would rate a 4.