Review of Justice League (2017) by Woziak99 — 17 Nov 2017

I went to the midnight showing and I'm going to be completly honest with this review. The plot and narrative have issues more to do with the condensed nature of the movie, however here's the thing there are some of the most amazing battle and comic book moments ever seen on the big screen.

The opening is solid with Wonder Woman being so heroic and just beautiful, the back stories of Aquaman, Flash and Cyborg are well executed given their limited time and then about a third of the way through the movie and pace becomes electric with four absolutely stunning comic book action scenes rolled off one after the other.

First the Amazons battle Stepenwolf to save their Mother Box which is flawless, beautifully shot and movie perfection, then Wonder Woman tells the story of the history lesson, which shows subtle little things like the Old Gods being 9 to 10 feet tall, ancient Mythology fighting an Alien threat, An Alien GL being killed by Stepenwolf, now Ancient Greek Gods fighting Aliens, that's never been done on screen before! The third great action scene involves the team coming together and bonding in Gotham Sewer to stop the parrademons from taking the Third Motherbox from the Starlab Scientists! The stakes increase as Stepenwolf kills one after another for not revealing it's location and a very reak World danger threat level looms! Finally we then get the highlight of the Movie Superman's resurrection and the sheer uncertainty of what state his mind is in! This was the part of the film that I most worried about with fear of yet more dark sinister Superman on the big screen, but it was handled brilliantly from Aquaman and Wonderwoman getting their arses kicked To Flash and Cyborg's uncertainity and where for a split second the stakes in the film are raised to an even higher threat level, not knowing if reborn Superman is good or evil but Bruce being Batman always has a contingency plan! So here we go, I loved Cyborg, liked Ezra Miller's Flash but not his running style! I loved Aquaman and wish we had more of the beautiful under water scenes, Mera was interresting and Wonder Woman was as always perfect.

Ben Afleck was brilliant again and a very different Batman from BVS but star performance has to go to Henry Cavil's true portrayal of Superman, it was perfect and worth the admission on its own. The last final battle scene is not as good as the earlier ones but it doesn't matter because the connection and the interaction between the 6 founding members of DCEU's Justice league is so good that you forget that the villain is poor and simply not equipped to deal with Aquaman and Wonderwoman let alone the whole league including Superman.

The ending is beautiful and nuanced if a little corny but who the **** cares, it's the Justice League. The two aftercredits are great and for all those people giving it under 6 or a 10, you have not seen the movie.

I want to give this film 8.