cringe

Rating: 1/10 (29 November 2017)

they make the same exact mistakes again and again. obviously dc don't possess the patience and the foresight to do what needs to be done for a franchise like this to be successful. instead of letting the cinematic universe grow organically and giving people a chance to get interested in and care about the characters they just dump everything in your lap and demand that you accept everything and care - it's just not possible.
the plot felt incredibly rushed and clichéd in a very.. not self aware way. instead of (if clichéd is the way they want to go) owning it there's this uncomfortable vibe that they think they're so cool and gritty and different when they're really not.
character introductions failed, personally I think Affleck as batman is terrible, the villain was incredibly poorly fleshed out and a poor work of cgi that just screamed about "destroying the world mohahah" without any clear motifs. Affleck is the only casting i have a real problem with, though i feel like the writing did Ezra Miller a real disservice in the way that every thing he said and did felt like it was forcibly supposed to show Barry Allen/the flash' personality.
the only + that comes to mind is the scene in which the amazons try do keep the box thing away from the villain, that was pretty cool. in all honesty i cringed a lot throughout the movie, the dialogue felt very stilted and the jump from strangers to "we're a team, a family!!" laughable.
disappointed but not all that surprised.