Unfortunate, elementary narrative

Rating: 4/10 (18 November 2017)

Justice League is quite a disappointment in spite of some triumphs that it does have. For starters, I did find Justice League to be worst than Batman V Superman, a great surprise to myself as I did not think it possible. But, this does make me appreciate Batman V Superman more than I did, I think a lot is to do with the tone as both films had pretty poor storytelling.
I recall that even though I did not enjoy BvS I really liked what they tried to do there, a darker more serious tone is what I feel the superhero genre needs. However, they couldn't capitalize with a good coherent story so that led to BvS' demise. In Justice League's case there is a strong attempt at comedy and a lighter story which really rubbed me the wrong way, I found The Flash's character slightly nearing annoyance several times and felt that both Aquaman and Wonderwoman were unfortunately slightly underutilized.
It seems that following the success of the much lighthearted Wonder woman along with Joss Whedon onboard the DCEU is going for such a fun high action movie. Yet, unfortunately it doesn't capture that Marvel spark and the characters just seem goofy, clunky and comical. The special effects did not help with this at all furthering this cartoonish texture that is seen in the characters in spite of some pretty solid acting across the board, which is unfortunate.
However, the worst part has to be the story, while it isn't in coherent like in Suicide Squad or BvS it was very weak, the villain Steppenwolf did not help this at all. It is just an over all very simple plot with a very dull, clichéd villain that resulted in a film that although had bits of fun action sprinkled through and certain feel-good moments had this overarching sense of simplicity.
I believe that the superhero genre must change in order to sustain as a film genre and in order to do this a brand like the DCEU has to adapt that dark tone that it had previously in order to distinguish itself from the plethora of superhero films we have today. Personally, comedy isn't the way and I particularly enjoyed the old worn out Bruce Wayne/Batman that we saw in BvS and I think that, that is the way for the DCEU to go.