Justice League - 6/10
I really, really wanted to like this film more, but I feel even this 6/10 is stretching it. This movie really could've used at least 30 more minutes for story and character development. Everything just happened, it seemed, without proper build-up. Honestly, this is my least favourite DCEU film. Yes, even Suicide Squad was better IMO.
Here be spoilers!
But, it wasn't all bad. Gal Gadot, Ezra Miller and Jason Momoa did pretty good jobs with the material that was given them, Ben Affleck was good as well, but I liked him better in BvS.
And you definitely have to stay all the way until the end of the credits!
Probably the best scene in all of the movie!
I really, really wanted to like this film more, but I feel even this 6/10 is stretching it. This movie really could've used at least 30 more minutes for story and character development. Everything just happened, it seemed, without proper build-up. Honestly, this is my least favourite DCEU film. Yes, even Suicide Squad was better IMO.
Here be spoilers!
Batman fights parademon, 3 minutes later he's in Greenland(?) sporting a month old beard, talking to Aquaman (I hear you can talk to Fish - Did we just become buddies?).
Roose Bolton plays a terrorist with a slightly farfetched but also a kinda awesome idea to stop the Alien invasion... Three minutes and bam. Dealt with by Wonder Woman. (Albeit a very cool scene, her stopping the machine gun bullets and all.)
The CGI was crap. You could really pinpoint the scenes which were Henry Cavill's reshoots. I feel that I could've done a better job at erasing his mustache using my scarce Photoshop skills than they did in this film. It was like they just painted his mustache skintone and that's it.
Also Steppenwolf... He looked like ****. His face looked like a bad prostetic mask, while being CGI. His first reveal scene and the battle with the Amazons was pretty cringy. Also his motives were lame and uninspired to say the least. Again, more screentime would've fixed this.
The humor was too much. BvS was dark and bleak, so I welcome the occasional wisecrack. Especially if done by the right characters, like The Flash, maybe Aquaman, but when Batman starts to joke or you hear Superman say: "I don't want to die again" *Que Big Explosion* "Nevermind, I wish I was dead," I just felt it was way too much. Cyborg saying his toes hurt, I mean come on! Some jokes, fine! But they didn't have to go all Marvel on us.
Roose Bolton plays a terrorist with a slightly farfetched but also a kinda awesome idea to stop the Alien invasion... Three minutes and bam. Dealt with by Wonder Woman. (Albeit a very cool scene, her stopping the machine gun bullets and all.)
The CGI was crap. You could really pinpoint the scenes which were Henry Cavill's reshoots. I feel that I could've done a better job at erasing his mustache using my scarce Photoshop skills than they did in this film. It was like they just painted his mustache skintone and that's it.
Also Steppenwolf... He looked like ****. His face looked like a bad prostetic mask, while being CGI. His first reveal scene and the battle with the Amazons was pretty cringy. Also his motives were lame and uninspired to say the least. Again, more screentime would've fixed this.
The humor was too much. BvS was dark and bleak, so I welcome the occasional wisecrack. Especially if done by the right characters, like The Flash, maybe Aquaman, but when Batman starts to joke or you hear Superman say: "I don't want to die again" *Que Big Explosion* "Nevermind, I wish I was dead," I just felt it was way too much. Cyborg saying his toes hurt, I mean come on! Some jokes, fine! But they didn't have to go all Marvel on us.
But, it wasn't all bad. Gal Gadot, Ezra Miller and Jason Momoa did pretty good jobs with the material that was given them, Ben Affleck was good as well, but I liked him better in BvS.
And you definitely have to stay all the way until the end of the credits!
Seeing Deathstroke make his entrance on Lex Luthor's ship, was really awesome! It felt real again, not like the videogame villain that was Steppenwolf.
Probably the best scene in all of the movie!
