Holy crap, was this movie terrible

Rating: 3/10 (17 November 2017)

I love DC. I grew up loving DC. So I had high hopes when Warner Bros. announced a DC Extended Universe much like the MCU. The entire time as people kept picking apart the DCEU, saying it was bad, I defended it. I loved Man of Steel. Hell, I even loved BVS (the Extended Cut, not the theatrical cut). Suicide Squad was terrible, but I was hoping with that movie that it was just a one-off misfire (like how Iron Man 2 sucks), and of course everyone loved Wonder Woman. As much as I loved MOS and BVS though, I felt that with Wonder Woman, perhaps the DCEU finally found it's footing and gained it's edge, and that Justice League was going to be the film to shut up all the naysayers.
Wow, I couldn't have been more wrong.
Needless to say, after this film, I've finally given up. I've given up on the DCEU. I've given up defending it, I've given up trying to make sense of this rushed world they're trying to create. I am simply done.
First, let's talk about what I did like. The acting was phenomenal, seriously, it was. Everybody in this film did a tremendous job playing their characters and trying to do their best with the terrible dialogue (more on that in a minute). Even all the new additions; The Flash, Aquaman and Cyborg; were acted wonderfully. They couldn't have asked for a better cast for this film. In addition to the acting, the fight scenes were very well done. Each time the heroes suited up and went out there to fight, I was thrilled and captivated for the entire length of each fight.
Now...everything else.
The story is soooo bad. Really bad. Trying to make sense of this story and what's going on is like trying to make sense of Watergate. It is a challenge in itself. There are so many parts that felt shoehorned in or scenes that were forced in just to move along the very loose semblance of a story that this film has. It was embarrassing to watch, especially to watch such a talented cast stumble through this themselves. The dialogue certainly doesn't help. Seriously, the dialogue in this film makes the dialogue from Batman & Robin look like an Academy Award winning screenplay, bad Mr. Freeze puns and all. So many bad jokes, so many moments thrown in that I feel they did simply because "That's what Marvel would do here." Combine an idiotic story with even worse dialogue, and it's hard to care much for what's going on.
To make matters worse, the special effects were terrible. It felt like I was watching Terminator 3 or The Matrix 3 or name any other special effects driven film from 2003. It didn't look real at all, hell, most video games nowadays looked better than this.
The villain is also very forgettable, which is a tragedy, seeing as how Steppenwolf is a great villain and the entire DCEU thus far has been building towards this epic showdown between Steppenwolf and the League, and Steppenwolf has no motive, barely any (good) dialogue, and dies a very, very forgettable death that, again, felt very forced.
All in all, this movie is just a hair above Suicide Squad, a major disappointment, and I'll be giving up on DC movies for a while now, as I crawl back into bed, huddle into a ball, and watch The Batman Animated Series on repeat until DC can figure out what the hell it wants with it's movies. Until then, I'm done.
A 3 out of 10