Not As Bad as Rotten Tomatoes Makes It Look

Rating: 5/10 (26 February 2018)

The film offers more character than we have seen in any DCEU films, whether it's the regular talks between Bruce and Arthur while trying to convince him to join the league or Bruce's walk by the lake with Diana. There is noticeable efforts to make it lighter in tone with the superheroes giving smirk whenever there is a chance and almost every slam being preceded by a one liner. Though the one liners are all funny, they could have brought that down a notch because at some point it starts looking like they are trying too hard. Some scenes, even Batman has been happily sacrificed of his dignified stature to accommodate one liners.
Though the repeated rolling of eyes and the playful childishness essayed by Ezra Miller wasn't even close to the charm of the Marvel equal, Spider man, it was nevertheless a refreshing addition. Aquaman does offer some dude laughs and Wonder Woman looks prettier than before. Cyborg could have been used more and Superman as Clark has added more colors to as a person in this film than he did in his previous two films.

Some scenes had a straight from the Tim Burton's Batman feel with the cinematography and music, especially where all the superheroes land on the roof after Gordon calls Batman with the Bat-signal. The tone is as we have been hearing, inconsistent, from fresh natural light tone to almost nothing-visible-dark, from fresh open corn fields to a reddish-orange palette, I am still not complaining.
But one thing I am complaining, would be the villain. According to multiple sources it is one of the costliest films ever made and still if they couldn't get Steppenwolf right then they didn't negotiate well when making the deal with the VFX 3rd party. The action choreography was almost below average, not one scene where one would go wow for a punch or a kick. Zack as a director seems to have a changed a lot in his style, didn't notice any trademark style slo-mos or poetic close ups, a lot to do with his last film I suppose. The run time impressed me, it didn't brood, and concluded even quickly, a fantastic move by WB right before the release amidst huge spotlight.
Overall the film is far better than what we have been reading, may be we are all getting too critical about the DCEU and hence they have to work twice as hard to reach the same success of Marvel. Expect nothing but a thorough pop-corn entertainer and you will end up getting much more.