I feel like I'm just going to be regurgitating what a lot of other people are already saying about this movie. It's got some really cool action sequences, but the plot is not much to talk about. That is this film in a nut shell. Yes it's very cool seeing all these DC Comics super heroes join forces to fight a common foe, but it somehow didn't feel as exciting as it probably should have been. It's still cool though, but it wasn't exactly successful in giving my inner 8 year old goosebumps from seeing Batman, Wonder Woman, the Flash, Aquaman, and Cyborg, together on screen in live-action. It should have.
Yes the story is as simple as it can be. That basic simplicity to the story does work in favor of the movie though, but on the flip side it also manages to work against it. The straightforward nature of the plot does keep the movie from feeling too over-bloated in juggling all these characters into a sensible story line. Now with that said, due to the lack of some much needed exposition, the movie also feels like it's just a series of separate scenes that are loosely stitched together through a rough edit. The story should have flowed more naturally, but it didn't.
Those scenes in question however were pretty cool for the most part. In fact, some of those cool scenes actually did give me some of those "wow" moments I was looking forward to. Wonder Woman was responsible for a lot of that, and so was the Flash. Everybody else were good too, but some of the things they did just looked cool on the basic comic book superhero level, and not necessarily on the "this is making my comic book geek self glee with joy" level. Still the same, overall the superhero moments delivered more positives than negatives, so I'll give it credit for that.
Is it possible for me to like "Justice League" based simply on visuals and those cool action sequences? Is it possible for me to like it purely on a superficial level, and ignore the substantial problems of the narrative? The answer to both questions is yes. With that said, I can't say the movie was terrible. It just wasn't as great as it probably should have been though.
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