Good adaptation

Rating: 10/10 (3 December 2017)

Two perspectives: First, review only on the movie (Standalone):
The movie was crisp and true to DCU. Almost,equal amount of screen space was given for all the characters. The story screenplay was lucid. The continuity from one frame to another was seamless. The characters had retained their originality. Although Batman himself looks a little weaker physically, given the age he is portrayed and that the rest of the folks are superhuman, it is definitely a good logic to show him that way. Nevertheless, the whole movie runs on his intellectual genius, strategy and the muscle power of the rest of the team. The cast is perfect. BATfleck is great, Cavil eases in, Gal Gadot is steaming, Aquaman and Cyborg were just fine. Flash was shown a little weak and childish (may be the CW Flash effect). May be there is a back story explanation. No prejudice, we should wait. The writers and the producers have remained true to the original Justice League comic book spirit. BGM was fantastic.
Second, place within DC and comparison to Marvel: This stands out as one of the best DC movies so far. Given that this is the first movie where we get to see so many of the DC superheroes together, this adds the OOMPH. The villain of this movie is formidable. But this also shows that there is definitely going to be bigger justice league movies with mush bigger villains. The scope is huge. And the post credit scenes set the stage for the next JLA movie.
And being a Marvel fan as well, I can already see Marvel movies going down in class, content and being true to comics (like how Thor has been handled is one example). So, looks like a upward tick for DC. Some movie fanboys try to draw parallels with Avengers and say that DC is trying to fit in the parallels. But the comic history of characters beckons, almost all of the DC characters pre-date their Marvel counterparts. Marvel's were adapted versions of the DC characters. In majority cases, the DC ones came first. So, for moviebuffs, try reading the comics before concluding. Prediction, going forward, DC is going to be trending up.. it might be the reverse for Marvel.