Injustice League

Rating: 4/10 (15 October 2018)

Justice League is the superhero movie equivalent of a football team trying to overcome their mistakes and show off their muscles, even though they are stained by their poor development. In other words, it's a movie with a team that tries so hard to be good, but ends up failing miserably.
The story? Fueled by his restored faith in humanity, and inspired by Superman's selfless act, Bruce Wayne enlists newfound ally Diana Prince to face an even greater threat. Together, Batman and Wonder Woman work quickly to recruit a team to stand against this newly-awakened enemy. Despite the formation of an unprecedented league of heroes in Batman, Wonder Woman, Aquaman, Cyborg and the Flash, it may be too late to save the planet from an assault of catastrophic proportions.
What the film has going against it is that there has only been a couple of prior films to set up this movie, including Man of Steel, Batman vs. Superman, and Wonder Woman. The problem with Batman vs. Superman is that they jumped right into the crossovers without properly setting up Batman, and same applies to this movie. Batman, Aquaman, Cyborg, and The Flash haven't gotten their own origin stories yet, and even if they will have some in the future, this is right now, and we don't know their stories in film. Because of this, it fails to feel like a big and popular event in cinema history, unlike in The Avengers, where the origin stories have already been set up for a big cinematic crossover to happen, proving that Marvel is capable of setting up their cinematic universe before going into the big crossovers. DC, on the other hand, makes their movies solely for the profit, caring little about the quality and more on the gross, and because there were no prior setups from this film, it wasn't the huge hit DC hoped it would be. Of course, the biggest problem with this movie is its runtime of only 2 hours, while the average Avengers movie is in the 2 hours and 20 minutes mark. If this is the ultimate cinematic dawn of the Justice League, then why is it so short? Does DC know audiences have a low attention span for their films?
Justice League, in conclusion, is a mess of a superhero film with a rushed focus on going into the big action and caring little about the storyline or the character development, and when we do get into the action, the visual effects are poor and the excitement is kept to a low. Not all superhero franchises can be like Marvel, and DC definitely proves this statement true.