This may just be the second best of the DCEU titles, but being bored into submission shouldn't be the standard for superhero entertainment of the non-Marvel variety.

Rating: 5/10 (20 November 2017)

'Justice League' is not quite as boring as 'Man Of Steel' or 'Batman V Superman' mainly because it's far shorter and far simpler, to the point that the story itself can be boiled down to one surprise-less compound sentence devoid of development or detail even at the most basic of sub-surface levels, and it isn't as much of an abysmal assault on the senses as 'Suicide Squad' mainly because it is, for the most part, legible and competently constructed on a technical scale, but this latest entry into the DCEU is still a dull and joyless experience that somehow still all seems like set-up when it should feel like some form of pay-off, a culmination of what's come before in a similar way to 'Avengers Assemble' (a flick which this has no issue in taking elements from, just not the right ones); there's still the undeniable fact that almost nothing ever feels tangible and the action sequences are so obviously digital that you'll be wearing a squint for most of the piece just to see what's going on, a fact not helped by the fact that most of them are infused with Zack Snyder's signature speed-ramping style and it's made even more visually confusing because a few core characters can move incredibly fast (while leads to some wildly speed-ramped slow-motion segments, 'slow-mo-ception' if you will, just to make things absolutely crazy), while the characters are all practically invincible so you're never inherently invested in their survival either and the feature never does anything to make you care about neither the key players (whom almost all seem as though they are desperate not to be there) nor the world at large which is oddly sidelined save a couple 'save the world' lines, so in the end the movie just comes across as incredibly lifeless, relatively unentertaining and just about as false as a certain special someone's CGI-enhanced upper-lip. 5/10