Justice League Movie Review: A thrilling action-packed adventure and Justice is indeed served!

Cast – Ben Affleck, Gal Gadot, Jason Momoa, Ezra Miller, Ray Fisher, Jeremy Irons, Henry Cavill, Amy Adams, Diane Lane, Connie Nielsen, Ciaran Hinds, JK Simmons

Director – Zack Snyder

Genre – Fantasy/Science Fiction

Duration – 2 hr 50 mins

Rating – 3.5/5

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Plot – Fueled by his restored faith in humanity as well as inspired by Superman’s self-sacrificing act, Bruce Wayne joins newfound ally Diana Prince to face an even bigger threat. Together, Batman and Wonder Woman work rapidly to enlist a team to stand against this newly awakened foe. Regardless of the formation of an extraordinary league of heroes – Batman, Wonder Woman, Aquaman, Cyborg and the Flash, it may be too late to save the world from an attack of disastrous proportions.

Review – Certainly, it makes all the sense in the world for Justice League to have turned out the way it did. As being a fan of these characters – an arrangement that meets the expense of the filmmakers’ certain liberties, yes, but also makes them dangerous to more scrutiny – we’ve shrugged at Man of Steel, we’ve seethed at Batman vs Superman, we’ve accepted Suicide Squad as well as we’ve celebrated Wonder Woman. Furthermore, as weird and wonderful it sounds, DCEU’s latest film is serving as a visible symbol of all these ups and downs, ebbs and flows. More than being the movie we want, it is a movie we must learn to accept.

Justice League is not everyone’s cup of tea. It is the sort of movie that can be agonizingly dumb at any given moment; with forced humour, jaw-droppingly asinine plotting that often pales in examining resemblances to the original DC animated series, but it has all the potential to make a houseful crowd of excited fans extremely palpitate with pure joy.

And part of the motive for this jaggedness is the story – credited to director Zack Snyder along with Oscar-winner Chris Terrio. It calls for you to be well versed in the polarizing plots of the DCEU (DC Extended Universe), and hinges in a precarious manner on one particular event – The death of Superman.

Superman’s death has left the world into mass mourning, with large black banners draped over the world’s most iconic landmarks in his remembrance – and in a particularly remarkable opening scene in Gotham City – pushing even criminals into a full blown existential situation of extreme danger.

But Superman’s death has also made our planet vulnerable to alien attacks. As hinted previously (in Batman v Superman) – once again, this movie is sort of special that way – a dominant otherworldly being who calls himself Steppenwolf arrives on Earth in hunt of a supernatural object known as a Mother box. There are, if I followed the clumsy plot correctly, three in existence – one underwater, with the Atlanteans, another with the Amazons, and the third, on Earth.

Sensing Steppenwolf’s arrival, Bruce joins Wonder Woman in on the plan, and together they embark on a mission to unite the meta-humans.

In Central City, Bruce finds Barry Allen, a.k.a The Flash. Meanwhile, Diana makes a feeble try at convincing Victor aka Cyborg into joining the team. This he later does, after vaguely turning her down, apparently on a whim. Poles apart, on a different corner of the planet, Bruce runs into Arthur Curry aka, the Aquaman.

United for the first time on a Gotham City rooftop – with the Bat Signal illuminating the dreary sky above – Batman, Wonder Woman, Cyborg and the Flash make a decision to defend Earth from the forces that threaten it.

Justice League continues the DCEU’s eccentric trend of producing films that are direct reactions to their instant predecessors. Batman v Superman made an ambitious effort to address the nihilistic third-act havoc of Man of Steel, and failed so enormously that it derailed the whole franchise, forced Warner Bros to postpone at least half-a-dozen future films, and with only a few months to go, drastically modify the tone of David Ayer’s Suicide Squad.

To us, Justice League to have turned out OK is almost unbelievable. For a film to have lost its director basically midway through production and to have the exact opposite of that director come in and finish the job would be a sensible cause for concern for anyone.

But against all odds, the absolutely opposite tones of Zack Snyder and Joss Whedon have come together and it works. We were all looking for a superhero movie that shows us a good quality time and Justice League succeeds in that.

But Danny Elfman’s unremarkable musical score, one of the most boring main villains in recent memory, and more than an hour spent on just building up a team – Justice League isn’t as awful as it could so easily have been.

And with a little blissfulness, Justice League accomplishes its heroic mission. It’s the least ambitious project of the DCEU films, and often feels almost too slight an entry in this legendary mythic franchise, but it’s a film that has expectations in its eyes along with optimism in its heart. It’d be mean to burst its bubble.

Final Words – This one deserves a watch! Go for it!