Review of Justice League (2017) by Mrdr4Gon — 17 Nov 2017

The film does not look like it cost $300 million to create, it's edited horrendously in the first half and in a way that makes it blatantly obvious that it's a 2hr movie cut out of a (probably much superior) 3hr movie that they'll probably charge $20 to buy a special edition blu-ray for. Everything is rushed. Joss Whedon's involvement in the scenes he reshot is problematic because he has such a better cinematic eye than Snyder does that it's blatantly obvious which scenes he shot and it all stands out like a sore thumb. The climax is hackneyed down so it feels too short, too anticlimactic and too easy for the main characters to overcome, and the narrative threads are made to be so flimsy that following the film involves willfully overlooking contrivances and plotholes. There are positives, the characters were all great even in the small doses that we got, and all of the actors were quite likeable, the dialogue was decent for the most part and some of the set pieces were legitimately well thought out and pretty cool. Ezra Miller in particular has a bright future ahead of him, and the only one of the cast members who I'm still unsure whether they'd be able to carry a solo film is Ray Fisher as Cyborg... because honestly who the hell would be capable of carrying a CYBORG movie of all things?

Honestly some big questions remain after watching this. Why did they hire the editor of BVS, one of the worst edited films of all time, to edit this? Why did Chris Terrio get brought back to write the screenplay after the horrendous job he did on BVS? Why is so much of what we see on screen so ugly to look at? (aesthetically the film is mostly complete garbage). Honestly this is just a huge waste of potential. It wasn't really that bad or particularly offensive it was just sort of boring for the most part and the Justice League as a franchise deserves better. It gets a 4 because of the decent things it actually made time to include and I'm guessing with that extra hour that would be in the potential blu-ray directors cut that seems inevitable, that version might reach the heights of a 5, a 6 or even a 7. Oh how delightful that would be.