If you don't know that story, back in 2017, there was a movie that wasn't that good. It was called Justice League. The original director (Zack Snyder) who was supposed to be behind it had a family crisis that he had to get too and while he was gone, Joss Whedon stepped in to "fix the film." So he did that and we got the film we got. People started campaigning to get Zack Snyder's Justice League. Just over a year ago, Warner Bros said they will put it on their streaming platform. Now it is out. Zack Snyder's Justice League is about Steppenwolf (Ciarán Hinds) coming down to Earth to gather these things called Motherboxes that will let the evil villain, Darksied (Ray Porter) come down to Earth and take it for himself. The Justice League find this out and will not let Steppenwolf accomplish his goal. This movie has one of the best stories I have ever seen in a superhero movie. It tops all Marvel movie stories. I think Marvel sort of screwed DC over. They had all of their light comedy action movies that just happened to have Spiderman and Iron Man in it and when DC started making their universe, people were expecting a light hearted action movie. Although Zack Snyder wanted to do a dark take on the Justice League and all of the heroes he wanted. DC has even been doing this for years with movies like Batman Returns, The Dark Knight, Constantine, and many more. It isn't a new concept at all. Just now people want comedy in action. Marvel set a standard that people want all superhero movies to be like and in the process screwed over many other superhero series or franchises like DC, The Unbreakable series, Hellboy, and more. The superhero genre used to not be all over the place. DC comes out with two films a year that is it. This year Marvel has four plus three tv shows. That is way too much. This movie did its own thing. I respect that. It was a pretty dark movie. He took his time in the movie to get to the climax and it payed off because you ended up really caring for all of the characters involved in the film. It was brilliant writing. I thought someone was lost in the process though. Aquaman didn't really have that much motivation to help save the world. He did have one small thing but he still didn't have that much motivation to do what he ended up doing. I think most people ended up overlooking it because he needed up getting his own movie that explained a lot of his backstory although in this movie, we didn't really get much of that. Overall though, the story was a strong side of the movie. The acting was by-far the best part of the movie. Ben Affleck gave a way better performance. In the other you could tell he didn't want to be there at all. Ray Fisher also was given more of a light to shine in in this film. He was given way more space to show off how good of an actor he is. Same thing for Ezra Miller. Gal Gadot did the same as she did in the first one and same for Henry Cavill. Jason Momoa also did the exact same in this film as in the first one. The CGI was pretty good for most of it being done without the technology that they would normally use. There were some scenes that could use a little touching up but I came into the movie thinking the CGI wasn't going to be a strong suit. Although, it wasn't anything that would take you out of the movie. The score was a major improvement from the first movie. Junkie XL came back and did the score for this film. I am not saying that Danny Elfman's score was bad but I liked the new take on the music that Junkie XL has been doing as well. He did this really amazing thing with vocals for the Amazonian theme. The score ended up being another improvement for the film. Zack Snyder's Justice League improved the story, color grading, and acting from the 2017 Justice League. I would watch this film over that one by a land slide. I would recommend this film to anybody who likes superhero movies and just anybody who wants to watch a good movie!
Review of Zack Snyder's Justice League
