'Justice League' like a fender bender at rush hour
The key to a good DC movie is low expectations, so if you expect Justice League to be bad, you’ll be pleasantly surprised. I’m not saying that it is a good movie by any stretch of the imagination, but it isn’t the train wreck I expected it to be. It’s more like a fender bender during rush hour – not very remarkable and slightly annoying. You’re going to look at it as you go by, but then you’re going to forget all about and hope the next DC movie will be at least as meh or slightly better. And DC with Warner Bros will keep making these movies because they can’t get out of their own way.
If you are going to see Justice League, stop reading now. Spoilers come after the break.
If you are going to see Justice League, stop reading now. Spoilers come after the break.
People really like Ezra Miller as the Flash; I’m not sure it had much to do with his performance. Miller plays a wide-eyed inexperienced superhero and is much like the Spider-Man of Captain America: Civil War and Spider-Man: Homecoming. Sorry, DC, Marvel’s already been there, done that and left you behind the curve again (or is it still, I’m not really sure). At any rate, Miller gets to have the best lines because he is naïve and new. Everyone else on the team is jaded – Aquaman, who turns the Batman down and Wonder Woman, who withdrew from life after the death of her beloved. Speaking of Wonder Woman, Gal Gadot’s breakout character is wasted here – not in an alcohol bonging way, but just as possible material to make this movie more fun. Technically, every character is wasted because… We’ll get to that in a moment.
I did say SPOILERS, right?
The movie itself is not so much a movie as it is a conglomeration of scenes and shots. Here’s Aquaman. Here’re the Amazons. Here’s Batman meeting Aquaman. Here’s Batman meeting the Flash. Here’re the people that originally fought and defeated this bad guy. Here’s the bad guys minions. Here’s Batman taking on one of the minions when he learns something of vital importance, so he and his richness can be relevant to this battle. Oh, wait, here’s some friction between the characters. Nevermind, we don’t really need friction. Oh, hey, here’s Superman, but is he our Superman. Here’s the romance portion of the film; isn’t this what got Wonder Woman the movie in trouble (in a non-Biblical way)? Here’s the battle where the good guys know they are going to get their butts kicked because there is no Superman. Hey, SUPERMAN! Wait, what did the Flash do this whole battle? Push a truck… huh.
And it’s that entry of Superman that causes the real downfall because it is Lois Lane who gets him there, and he is the man in black. No one is going to beat Superman, which makes everything else the other heroes were doing not worth anything. They were just buying time until Supes got there, even if they didn’t know it. The Justice League in this case was anything but a team. It was a collected group of individuals who served as high power cannon fodder to face off against the bad guy. The worst part was that there was no feeling of camaraderie or triumph at the end. It was just – Meh! A lack of action and a lack of team work with Superman arriving to save the day isn’t what a Justice League movie should be about. Just call it Superman 4 or whatever number it is. Yes, DC and Warner make all the movies, we’ll keep seeing them and keep hoping against hope that maybe the next one will be better.
I did say SPOILERS, right?
The movie itself is not so much a movie as it is a conglomeration of scenes and shots. Here’s Aquaman. Here’re the Amazons. Here’s Batman meeting Aquaman. Here’s Batman meeting the Flash. Here’re the people that originally fought and defeated this bad guy. Here’s the bad guys minions. Here’s Batman taking on one of the minions when he learns something of vital importance, so he and his richness can be relevant to this battle. Oh, wait, here’s some friction between the characters. Nevermind, we don’t really need friction. Oh, hey, here’s Superman, but is he our Superman. Here’s the romance portion of the film; isn’t this what got Wonder Woman the movie in trouble (in a non-Biblical way)? Here’s the battle where the good guys know they are going to get their butts kicked because there is no Superman. Hey, SUPERMAN! Wait, what did the Flash do this whole battle? Push a truck… huh.
And it’s that entry of Superman that causes the real downfall because it is Lois Lane who gets him there, and he is the man in black. No one is going to beat Superman, which makes everything else the other heroes were doing not worth anything. They were just buying time until Supes got there, even if they didn’t know it. The Justice League in this case was anything but a team. It was a collected group of individuals who served as high power cannon fodder to face off against the bad guy. The worst part was that there was no feeling of camaraderie or triumph at the end. It was just – Meh! A lack of action and a lack of team work with Superman arriving to save the day isn’t what a Justice League movie should be about. Just call it Superman 4 or whatever number it is. Yes, DC and Warner make all the movies, we’ll keep seeing them and keep hoping against hope that maybe the next one will be better.