Quartile rating: 7/10 · 1 rating
Fuelled by his restored faith in humanity and inspired by Superman's selfless act, Bruce Wayne and Diana Prince assemble a team of metahumans consisting of Barry Allen, Arthur Curry and Victor Stone to face the catastrophic threat of Steppenwolf and the Parademons who are on the hunt for three Mother Boxes on Earth.
Justice League (2017) is a troubled production that shows its seams throughout. The plot is thin and rushed — Steppenwolf is a generic world-ending villain with little menace, and the assembly of the team feels mechanical rather than earned. The acting is a mixed bag: Gal Gadot and Jason Momoa bring charisma, but the CGI-erased Henry Cavill upper lip became infamous and the ensemble chemistry feels forced. Cinematographically, the film is visually inconsistent — Joss Whedon's reshoots clash tonally and visually with Zack Snyder's darker footage, resulting in an uneven, sometimes murky look. Novelty is low; it follows the well-worn superhero team-up formula without adding anything distinctive, and the villain and MacGuffin (Mother Boxes) are wholly generic. The ending is perfunctory — Superman's return resolves the conflict too easily, and the final battle lacks tension or surprise. Overall a below-average entry in the superhero genre that feels compromised by its troubled production.