This is not the Justice League. It just isn't. Most of the characters are not the characters they represent, so this can not be the team they are meant to represent.
That is not to say I didn't enjoy the characters, I did, but for the wrong reason. Aquaman was great, but very much NOT Aquaman. Flash was fantastic, but not even close to Flash. Cyborg was ... well, under the new DC I guess he was close, but Cyborg has failed for me ever since they turned him into the end all, be all of all things electronic/electric. What was once a great character with limited but cool powers is now the breathing God of Best Buy, packed with all sorts of appliances. He is the Silver Age Superman of current DC. There is NOTHING he can't do. And that equals boring as hell to me.
To me, this movie started badly from the get go basically due to the lack of any ... kismet between the characters. Bruce and Aquaman was brutal, watching Cyborg and his dad was rough, Barry and Bruce had no spark ... even though the room was full of it (Why oh why must Flash be all Lightening now just baffles me. Here and in the comics, every time he moves just Pow, zap, spark ... bolts everywhere.) Oh, and that Martha and Lois scene? Jesus Christ who the hell wrote that horrible piece of shit? From the lady on the news talking about her wanting to "anal probe" the aliens to they bullshit dialog shared between two very powerful actresses (or is actors the term now
), man that scene needed a re-shoot. Wow that was bad.
Okay, Steppenwolf. Yeah, laughable CG and sadly, dialog ("Leave her to me" and seconds later "Finish Her!"
).
Speaking of Steppenwolf ... what in the hell was with the Hobbit origin story of his first earthly visit? The armies of man joined the armies of Atlantis and the armies of the Amazon ... oh and a Green Lantern was there. Man, that sure seemed like the battle of the 5 armies to me.
Anywho, I am at the part right after the Gotham river flooded the battle scene (why the hell was Bat's "Night Crawler" so damn big in the first place?) so I have about half left to go. So far at least I can say this is better than Suicide Squad, though not by much. But hey, DC still has Wonder Woman. Who they sure liked to show her ass in this movie, yeah?