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“#A Superhero Fantasy Epic \u2013 \/Film<\/strong>”<\/p>\n

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Is\u00a0Zack Snyder\u2019s Justice League<\/em><\/strong> a superhero movie disguised as a fantasy epic, or a fantasy flick cosplaying as a superhero saga? The answer seems to be somewhere in the middle. One thing is for certain:\u00a0Zack Snyder<\/strong> was not trying to make just another comic book sequel when he set out to make\u00a0Justice League<\/em>. After leaving the project only to see so much of his work reshot by Joss Whedon, Snyder has returned to reassemble the movie he originally intended to make. The end result is more akin to\u00a0The Lord of the Rings<\/em> than\u00a0Batman v Superman \u2013\u00a0<\/em>a film about humans and fantastical creatures from various kingdoms joining forces to fight against an ancient, all-powerful evil that threatens to plunge the world into darkness.<\/p>\n

Even if you don\u2019t obsessively follow these sorts of things, you likely know the basic backstory behind\u00a0Zack Snyder\u2019s Justice League<\/em>, AKA the Snyder Cut. While Zack Snyder is the credited director of 2017\u2019s theatrically released\u00a0Justice League<\/em>, much of that film is the result of reshoots by Joss Whedon. Snyder had a rough cut of the film ready and then stepped away from the production, at which point Warner Bros. tossed it to the side and went (mostly) with Whedon\u2019s work. Ever since then, Snyder\u2019s very vocal fans have been demanding to see the filmmaker\u2019s original vision. It felt like a pipe dream until HBO Max made it a reality, dumping a reported\u00a0$70 million into Snyder\u2019s lap so he could go back and work his rough assembly cut into something releasable.
\nAnd here is the result of Snyder\u2019s labors \u2013 a four-hour film that will thrill some and utterly exhaust others. Is it worth all the hype? That\u2019s debatable, but it can\u2019t be denied that whatever\u00a0Zack Snyder\u2019s Justice League<\/em> is, it\u2019s wholly Zack Snyder\u2019s vision \u2013 for better and worse. What Snyder is attempting here is worthwhile simply because it\u2019s clear he doesn\u2019t want to churn out the same old superhero flick we\u2019ve seen dozens and dozens of times by now. Instead, Snyder, working with a script<\/a> by credited to\u00a0Chris Terrio<\/strong>, is going for something grander \u2013 a massive, sprawling epic that has more to do with Peter Jackson\u2019s\u00a0Lord of the Rings<\/em> trilogy than it does with traditional tales of spandex-clad heroes in flowing capes. Superheroes (and by extension supervillains) are not a modern invention in Snyder\u2019s world \u2013 they\u2019re ancient, eternal, and mythic. They\u2019re the type of figures who are chiseled on cave walls and painted into Hellenic\u00a0frescoes.<\/p>\n

Snyder didn\u2019t invent this idea, of course. Other films have touched on this \u2013 most notably\u00a0M. Night Shyamalan\u2019s\u00a0Unbreakable<\/em>, which posited that comic books are the last link between an ancient way of passing down history. Snyder takes that concept and runs with it, giving us lengthy flashback sequences to a bygone era where Earth saw mighty battles in which gods and mortals banded together to fight against evil from beyond the cosmos. The idea of powerful beings putting aside their differences to come together to save the world runs through\u00a0Zack Snyder\u2019s Justice League<\/em>, as the weary Batman\/Bruce Wayne (Ben Affleck<\/strong>) strives to make amends. In\u00a0Batman v Superman<\/em>, we were presented with a murderous, xenophobic Batman who loathed the otherness<\/em> of Superman (Henry Cavill<\/strong>). In the end, Batman learned the error of his ways by watching Superman die at the hands of a hulking alien monster. But as the Caped Crusader understands it, the out-of-this-world beastie that killed Supes was only a coming attraction. Bigger and more malevolent forces are on the way, and Batman has to assemble a mini-army to stop them.<\/p>\n

So he turns to beings mightier than himself. He already has Amazon warrior Diana Prince\/Wonder Woman (Gal Gadot<\/strong>) in his corner, but he needs more. He reaches out to Arthur Curry\/Aquaman (Jason Momoa<\/strong>), a booze-swilling fish-man who would rather hang out in a damp fishing village than help save the world. And then he finds motor-mouthed speedster Barry Allen, AKA The Flash (Ezra Miller<\/strong>). Rounding out the would-be-league is poor, tragic Victor Stone\/Cyborg (Ray Fisher<\/strong>), a college kid who was near death thanks to a car accident \u2013 only to be brought back as half-man\/half-machine by his well-meaning scientist father (Joe Morton<\/strong>).<\/p>\n

The previous version of\u00a0Justice League<\/em> brought these characters together somewhat quickly, simply because that is what the plot required. Here, it takes more time; that four-hour length allows Snyder to let things play out while also getting inside the heads of his super-leads. Fisher\u2019s Cyborg is the best-served here, given a full arc as a troubled, angry being who is incredibly powerful but incredibly bogged-down by his own understandable angst. Worst-served, curiously enough, is Gadot\u2019s Wonder Woman, who seems to just be hanging around, although she does get to kick some ass \u2013 and in one unnecessary sequence, she literally blows up a terrorist with her mighty gauntlets. \u201cCan I be like you someday?\u201d a traumatized child asks Wonder Woman after watching the terrorist explode in a burst of brilliant light. \u201cYou can be anything you want to be!\u201d Wonder Woman helpfully replies with a smile, completely unperturbed that she just vaporized someone.<\/p>\n

Earth would be better off if these heroes acted quicker because there\u2019s a new baddie in town \u2013 the towering\u00a0Steppenwolf, who struts around in a suit of armor that looks like it\u2019s made up of garbage disposal blades. A fully CGI creation, and an unconvincing one to boot, Steppenwolf is an utter snooze \u2013 there\u2019s nothing memorable about\u00a0Justice League<\/em>\u2018s big bad, although his expanded role here does present him as more of a pathetic, tragic loser trying to make a good impression on his boss than just another world-destroying villain. That boss is the grumbly Darkseid, who is not-so-patiently waiting back on Steppenwolf\u2019s home world, occasionally showing up for something akin to an intergalactic Zoom call to ask Steppenwolf why he\u2019s taking so damn long to conquer Earth.
\nSnyder presents all of this with the utmost seriousness. There\u2019s no real room of humor or lightness in his world \u2013 although Miller\u2019s Flash does get to crack some jokes. Everything is very dark and very bleak, complete with a muted color palette. There\u2019s nothing wrong with taking this type of material seriously, but it\u2019s hard to buy into that seriousness when everyone runs around talking about Mother Boxes, magical devices that have the power to destroy the world once they\u2019ve been synchronized. This leads to lots and lots of cringe-inducing dialogue \u2013 \u201cWe\u2019ve got to destroy the defensive dome to stop the unity from synchronizes!\u201d someone yells at one point without a trace of irony. Later, there\u2019s talk of something helpfully called\u00a0the Anti-Life Equation. And just in case you couldn\u2019t tell this was a\u00a0very serious, very adult story, Snyder has moments like the one where Cyborg, when asked to help save the world, spits back: \u201cFuck<\/em> the world!\u201d Harsh, dude.<\/p>\n

The actors feel adrift in all of this. Affleck, who is a good Batman, in\u00a0theory, is oddly wooden throughout the entire film; Gadot\u2019s line delivery is stiff and strained; and Momoa\u2019s miserable Aquaman had me longing for the more agreeable version of the character seen in James Wan\u2019s\u00a0Aquaman<\/em> film. Fisher and Miller fare better \u2013 Miller\u2019s Flash is a fun character, and while Cyborg is brooding and angsty on the page, Fisher is able to give him some life. Cavill\u2019s Man of Steel is also a welcome presence when he shows up \u2013 which he does, eventually, sporting a sleek new black Superman suit; a wardrobe change that\u2019s never, ever explained. Not even slightly.<\/p>\n

Whatever one can say about Snyder, it\u2019s undeniable that he knows how to craft a memorable visual, and he excels here whenever he\u2019s staging big, dramatic action. He\u2019s also his own worst enemy \u2013 a filmmaker who does not know how to get the hell out of his own way. His penchant for distracting needle drops grates on the nerves. For example, there are multiple Nick Cave songs on the soundtrack, while there\u2019s certainly nothing wrong with Nick Cave, Snyder makes sure to lay it on thick (\u201cThey told us our gods would outlive us, but they lied<\/em>\u2026,\u201d Cave mournfully sings on \u201cDistant Sky,\u201d which plays over a slow-mo sequence of the god-like Aquaman brooding).<\/p>\n

Snyder\u2019s bad habit of succumbing to his worst instincts leads to several boneheaded moments \u2013 a genuinely moving scene shared between Diane Lane<\/strong>, as Superman\u2019s mourning mom, and Amy Adams<\/strong>, as reporter and Superman love interest Lois Lane, is immedia<\/a>tely undone by a pointless twist. And the entire film itself is also almost undone by a terrible, baffling epilogue that should\u2019ve remained on the cutting room floor. Then you have groan-worthy moments like a sequence where Cyborg goes inside of his own mind to explore his own powers, and when he learns he can manipulate the financial market, Snyder decides to represent this by having a giant CGI bear fight a giant CGI bull, like some Wall Street bro\u2019s cocaine-tinged fever-dream. On top of all of this, Snyder has decided to present the film in a boxy\u00a01.33:1 aspect ratio that adds nothing to the proceedings.<\/p>\n

And yet\u2026it\u2019s hard not to get swept up in all of this slick mayhem. Yes,\u00a0Zack Snyder\u2019s Justice League<\/em> is\u00a0very<\/em> long, but it never drags. The narrative is constantly moving, constantly introducing us to new worlds, new characters, new action set pieces. An ultra slow-motion sequence where The Flash saves a woman (a woefully underused Kiersey Clemons<\/strong>) from a massive car accident, complete with CGI hot dogs from a smashed hot dog cart flying through the air, all while a dreamy cover of Tim Buckley\u2019s \u201cSong to the Siren\u201d plays, is somehow both very dumb<\/em> and very enchanting<\/em>. In fact, \u201cvery dumb and very enchanting\u201d could sum up\u00a0Zack Snyder\u2019s Justice League<\/em> as a whole. There was never a single moment where I bought the story Snyder was selling, but I did enjoy his attempt to create a superhero movie that rises above the din.
\nWe\u2019ve been inundated by an onslaught of superhero movies<\/a> for over a decade now, and even the exceptional titles still follow a very familiar formula. Snyder is attempting to break out of that formula and give us something more grandiose \u2013 a world not of human beings achieving greatness but of actual, full-fledged gods; uncanny beings beyond our puny primitive minds. In some ways, this backfires \u2013 it feels like there\u2019s not a single normal human being in this film. Every frame is occupied by larger-than-life personalities. The heroes of\u00a0Justice League<\/em> are out to save the world, but it often comes across as if they\u2019re fighting for an already uninhabited planet. A borderline-extinct world that\u2019s already dried up and died out. These missteps should utterly sink\u00a0Justice League<\/em>, but they don\u2019t. The film perseveres, fighting like hell just to exist. That it exists at all is something of a weird miracle.\u00a0Zack Snyder\u2019s Justice League<\/em>\u00a0is not a total success, but in the end, it\u2019s an utterly fascinating experiment that deserves to be seen. Perhaps that\u2019s enough.<\/p>\n

\/Film Rating: 6 out of 10<\/strong><\/p>\n

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