Zack Snyder's Justice League Review

Review of Zack Snyder's Justice League (2021) by screenqueeen: 👍 3.5/5

Well this took me by surprise. For its first few chapters this felt like a DC event comic. While feeling like a comic isn't the goal here it's the heartwarming feeling of getting to see every character and their family tree getting some time in the sun with meaningful scenes and actually necessary sequences contributing to the stakes of the film.

This behemoth isn't paced in the best way but with all these moving parts I'm amazed things moved along as quickly as they did and am summarily convinced that this thing was pored over tirelessly and came out the way it did because it's the only version that works.

This also makes me feel even more disdain for Whedon and his criminally botched job of a director who left initially for extremely personal reasons (and further disrespected his and his daughter's wishes by eviscerating the film's story), not to mention continuing his pattern of abuse on this feature's talent.

Every character gets a whole handful of reasons for the audience to care about them. Even Aquaman felt a ton more likeable during and immediately after his scene in the bar with Bruce, and Snyder's patented slow-mo never felt cringey to me during any instance of it. The 4:3 ratio really just accentuates the feel of flitting from panel to panel in above mentioned DC event comic.

This is probably the only DC joint other than BIRDS OF PREY that makes me want to revisit it. If we get a theatrical re-release of this sometime post-covid I'd be there.