A big step backward for DCEU...

Rating: 4/10 (19 November 2017)

Justice League is a cluttered tonal jumble with cheap writing, wooden characters, intermittent pacing, and a wasted supporting cast. Yet, the action was a decent surge of popcorn thrills. If Zack Synder can master anything, it's imagery, and it wasn't Transformers level of blaring. It was neat to see Aqua Man, Flash, and Cyborg do their thing for a couple set-pieces, but their individual narratives should've launched beforehand. Their rushed introductions could not generate an affective connection, therefore I could careless what happened to them or how they interacted with Batman, Superman, and Wonder Woman. I hate to make a forced comparison to The Avengers, but those characters are complex, endearing and their colorful personalties play of each other adequately. The Justice League are insipid bores. Definitely not a good film, and that irritates me because I want this film universe to succeed, it should be amazing, and Wonder Woman was such a return to form. Justice League, however, was a big step backward.