Review of Zack Snyder's Justice League

It's no secret that the DCCU hasn't had the best of luck, and they really did everyone wrong with the original including and especially Zack Snyder and most of the cast. Zack Snyder might not be the best director, and not all his movies work, but I will always have infinitely more respect for him as a director and a person than I ever will for Joss Whedon especially now, Whedon's style has bored me for years and the original movie was the final nail in the coffin. But I've never seen a director's cut be exponentially better than the original quite like this. Everything that was wrong with the original is completely fixed here, the character development, especially for Cyborg, is honestly probably the best I've seen in a superhero movie, period, the action scenes are incredible even against such a high bar, and it just does a fantastic balancing comedy, action, and just pure emotional weight, arguably even better to me personally than even Avengers: Endgame. I can name double-digit scenes that actually had me crying for real, and that's not something too easy to do. I don't even care that it's 4 hours, it could be 10 for all I care because this is how you make a damn movie. It wasn't without it's problems, but I didn't really care all that much. The Epilogue was pretty much the perfect way to end the series as a whole, like it was just incredible. It sucks that DC is still kind of mistreating the crew even now when they're clearly their best asset, but this movie is just near perfection. I think it deserves even better than it's usually getting.