justice league movie full review
Justice league movie full review:-
Batman
vs Superman: Dawn of Justice concerned itself laboriously and lengthily with
“man playing god”. And then, Superman died. What is to be done then but to
resurrect him? All the concerns of the previous film forgotten now, Justice
League goes about doing precisely that, down to immersing Clark Kent’s body,
baptism-like, in an amniotic fluid.
Superman (Cavill) isn’t
the only one reborn as Snyder returns with a shorter, if not any less chaotic,
film. So is ‘Steppenwolf’, a monster who had been banished many years ago by
gods and men combined, and has returned to destroy Earth. He is tall, scaled,
horned, and has clearly some mother issues — in that last aspect, many
characters of Justice League are united, as they were in Batman vs Superman.
The casting list tells us Steppenwolf is played by the talented Hinds, but
really there is no way to tell which actor hides behind that exterior, or if
one was needed at all. Among other things, Steppenwolf is after three “mother
boxes”, “the source of creation, destruction and power”. Justice
League’s battle consists of Batman (Affleck) assembling Wonder Woman (Gadot),
Flash (Miller), Acquaman (Momoa) and Cyborg (Fisher) — later joined by Superman
— to stop Steppenwolf.That amount of superpowers in one room can be daunting
for anyone, even if Marvel has made it look easy with Avengers. Plus, Snyder is
coming into Justice League bearing the dead weight of Batman vs Superman as
well as the expectations that come from a reported $300 million budget (putting
the film in the category of one of the most expensive ever). It’s hard to tell
where that money has been spent — if not on just creating and destroying the
clumsy and boring Steppenwolf — but Snyder at least keeps Justice League
lighter on its feet than Batman vs Superman.
Contributing to this lightness are
Gadot and Miller. Flash is the nervous, twitchy, teenage new-kid-on-the-block,
and Miller mostly gets it right. The Aquaman and Cyborg, on the other hand,
appear half-conceived and present only to fill up the screen. The film’s
smartest move is to recognise that Gadot is the beating heart of this
enterprise. And given that this enterprise rests on a fairly straightforward
idea, that a dark world needs hope above all else, you can’t do much better
than giving people the luminescent Israeli with the wide smile and twinkley
eyes. Batman, played with as much surliness as before by the grim-jawed
Affleck, tells Wonder Woman as much — to be the leader she needs to be. A sound
ground for a third film.
It’s unfortunate then
that Justice League doesn’t feel the need to have actual people around, to be
led or to be saved. As our superheroes and an incomprehensible villain cross
swords and blasts, only one family is in any real danger. A Russian family with
two small children, living in a place where once a “nuclear meltdown” happened.
Why go looking any further?
review master rating :2.7/5
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