Forgettable with nothing you haven't seen before

Rating: 5/10 (19 November 2017)

Justice League is a victim of the over-saturation of superhero movies. Almost nothing in the movie was unique and it has all been used in superhero movies already in the last decade. Unfortunately, Justice League is unable to improve on any of these secondhand moments. Instead, a villain with a horned helmet (who is not Loki, Ares, Hela, Surtur, or Incubus) seeks to destroy the world with the help of a faceless CGI army (that isn't the Chitauri, the things from Suicide Squad, the Draugr, or the Dark Elves) and a cube of pure power (not the Tesaract). The character introductions were heavy handed as a result of having to bring in three new heroes and the tone was largely dark with occasional moments of levity. The Flash was the only real source of humor and that was undermined by the mopey serious behavior of the rest of the characters. The Flash's big action scene was essentially a worse version of the Quicksilver scene from "X-Men Days of Future Past."
Really nothing from Justice League stood out, and even an hour after seeing it, I'm already starting to forget what happened. I felt like I had already because it was essentially copying the formula Marvel used in "The Avengers" but with a more bloated storyline that tried to force in too many characters (Commissioner Gordon served no purpose) and Zack Snyder's signature joylessness.