As someone who had nothing but cynicism to show for the pieces of sh*t that were Man of Steel and Dawn of Justice I went into JL with mediocre hopes and left honestly satisfied.
Seriously, if you were to completely discard the villain and Macguffin of Mother Boxes (thats a whole essay of nope) I'd say that this was the Justice League film I've been looking for.
Steppenwolf was easily the biggest flaw there is absolutely no reason why the Big Bad shouldn't have been Darkseid at this point. I would have been more entertained by Mark Strong Despero and a giant CGI Starro.
Real quick: WW was just as awesome as in her solo film.
If you've lasted this long in my review let me apologize for my writing, I may not be the most articulate reviewer so please bare with me. Through the ups and downs I've always been a proud fan of the Grant Gustin Flash tv show and having said that Ezra Miller is a superb Flash...but not Barry Allen. I mean Miller's Flash is fine for like Wally/Flash or some other kind of character but imho he just didn't capture the character of Barry Allen like Gustn.
I know he's not perfect but the Whedon's humorous moments definitely provided some much needed levity to the film in my opinion. Its my definitely my favorite Cavill Superman out of all of his films. Aquamana was okay but he I don't know what WB was going for with his character (feel free to criticize),
Cyborg gets a bum wrap in other reviews I've seen but he was fine to me. I grew up on the original Teen Titans cartoon and in the third act when he said "Booyah," someone in the audience said "Hell yeah," and that put a smile on my face.
So yeah, Justice League was a decent movie if you get past that lazy " threatening threat to ever threaten" letdown of a villain. Given that post credits scene though I'd like to see this DCEU continue and improve from here.
Locked in Mediocracy
As someone who had nothing but cynicism to show for the pieces of sh*t that were Man of Steel and Dawn of Justice I went into JL with mediocre hopes and left honestly satisfied.
Seriously, if you were to completely discard the villain and Macguffin of Mother Boxes (thats a whole essay of nope) I'd say that this was the Justice League film I've been looking for.
Steppenwolf was easily the biggest flaw there is absolutely no reason why the Big Bad shouldn't have been Darkseid at this point. I would have been more entertained by Mark Strong Despero and a giant CGI Starro.
Real quick: WW was just as awesome as in her solo film.
If you've lasted this long in my review let me apologize for my writing, I may not be the most articulate reviewer so please bare with me. Through the ups and downs I've always been a proud fan of the Grant Gustin Flash tv show and having said that Ezra Miller is a superb Flash...but not Barry Allen. I mean Miller's Flash is fine for like Wally/Flash or some other kind of character but imho he just didn't capture the character of Barry Allen like Gustn.
I know he's not perfect but the Whedon's humorous moments definitely provided some much needed levity to the film in my opinion. Its my definitely my favorite Cavill Superman out of all of his films. Aquamana was okay but he I don't know what WB was going for with his character (feel free to criticize),
Cyborg gets a bum wrap in other reviews I've seen but he was fine to me. I grew up on the original Teen Titans cartoon and in the third act when he said "Booyah," someone in the audience said "Hell yeah," and that put a smile on my face.
So yeah, Justice League was a decent movie if you get past that lazy " threatening threat to ever threaten" letdown of a villain. Given that post credits scene though I'd like to see this DCEU continue and improve from here.