Considering The Cost, It Is An Epic Failure

Rating: 7/10 (14 January 2018)

Knowing that more metahumans and assorted superpowered creatures will be coming to Earth with a bad attitude, Batman (played by Ben Affleck), recruits other metahumans (Gal Gadot as Wonderwoman, Jason Momoa as Aquaman, Ezra Miller as the Flash, and Ray Fisher as Cyborg) to form a league to combat all the incoming super bad dudes out there. Affleck's problem is that some of the metahumans in his wish list don't want to join, and they all still have to learn how to fight as a unit.
And then comes Steppenwolf, a super bad guy who has been alive way before the invention of toilet paper, always in a pissy mood and wants to control everything he sees. He is in search of three special boxes that will give him more power to accomplish his goals. But the "Justice League" is there to do their best to put a wrench in Steppenwolf's hostile takeover machine.
My most memorable, movie moment of "Justice League" is the scene when Momoa didn't know he was sitting on Gadot's truth lasso, and he just started spewing funny and insulting comments about his League members. The best joke was on Affleck.
Grade B-...not bad for a movie, right? Well, for a $300 million movie (plus the costs of advertising and distribution) it's a failure. For one thing, there were too many cooks in the kitchen. With two directors working on this movie at different times, you just know certain things aren't going to mix well. Then there was the mandate that the movie should be about two hours long. Hmmm...a movie that has to tell the origins of Steppenwolf, plus Aquaman, plus Cyborg, plus The Flash, plus show how Affleck gets all his people together, plus that whole thing with raising Superman from the dead and how he was going to deal with it and how the world and the League will deal with him...all that in two hours? Studio executives...please stop taking cocaine/Vicodin/alcohol when you make decisions about a movie. Two hours were definitely not enough to tell this story well, and it shows.
Then there are the shenanigans, such as Wonder Woman being fast enough to deflect bullets from an automatic weapon, yet where the hell was all that speed when she fought Steppenwolf? Then you have The Flash who is supposed to be extremely fast (some sources say about the speed of light, which is 186,000 miles per second); but he is getting his ass handed to him a few times by the bad guys who have normal speed. The same with Superman (played by Henry Cavill): he is now extremely fast and should be able to kill Steppenwolf's minions by the thousands in a few seconds, but can't. Suspension of disbelief doesn't mean the audience will forgive poor screenwriting and numerous logical flaws in the story.
Problems, problems; but $300 million does buy a lot of eye candy. For those who want to be dazzled and entertained, this movie may do it for you. Just don't expect too much substance, or sense.
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