Poor story

Rating: 4/10 (13 April 2018)

All the very legitimate complaints re: CGI, Superman's face, the film being too dark, literally not figuratively, etc...all that aside;
The biggest failure of this film is a poor storyline.
The villain is lame. He's just some big ugly dude who lives somewhere in space and waits around for centuries for these 3 boxes to alert him when it's time to come back to Earth. His big goal is to use the 3 boxes to terraform the Earth into a replica of his home world, cause one ugly planet isn't enough for some reason.
So he does this and the way he is defeated is Superman beats him up a bit, doesn't kill him mind you, just roughs him up and breaks his throwing axe. Then poof, a bunch of his minions take and transport him back to his ugly home planet. The end.
Oh and Aqua Man while he looks and act super cool, doesn't do much water work in this movie. One small scene where he holds back some harbor water while the team tries to climb out. Other than that you don't get much water work as he battles Steppenwolf.
Flash is cute, kind of a super hero newbie. Not sure why with friends like Batman he doesn't parlay his help saving the world into a pardon/early release for his Dad, but maybe I'm too cynical.
The film is TOO DARK, colors are drab and muted. The villain is too flat and lame. Frankly Bat Man is dragging things down. He's Uber grim, has no super powers and dresses like a bat. One of these superheroes is not like the others. Lose B man and punch up the storylines and things might work.