By Truman Martin – Staff Reporter

Zack Snyder’s “Justice League” was released on March 18 on HBO Max. Snyder was the initial director of the original “Justice League,” which came out back in 2017,  but Joss Whedon took over direction in the middle of filming. The movie cost $70 million to make, and it made $650 million worldwide. The story is about Batman, Aquaman, Cyborg, Wonder Woman, The Flash, and Superman going up against Steppenwolf, the main villain of the film. This time around, Snyder made a four-hour long epic and divided it up into six parts and an epilogue.

This film is very divisive among fans. A lot of people love it, and a lot of people think it wasn’t that much better than the first one (which was very bad). The movie is not very good at all. Compared to other movies like the Christopher Nolan Batman movies and The Joker, this movie is very campy. The script is very cringy at times, and most of the characters are very bland. Also, probably the most striking thing about this movie is the excessive use of slow motion. If Snyder sped up all of the slow motion to regular speed and just shortened some scenes, this movie would be a solid two hours. It feels like they forgot to edit down a lot of scenes. 

Now, despite this movie’s many failures, it does do some things better than the original. One of these things is the further development of Cyborg and The Flash as characters. Cyborg’s story is very well developed, and The Flash nearly saves the movie from being just as bad as the original. The Flash is a very likable character and brings all of the bland characters to life for a split second. 

Overall, Zack Snyder’s “Justice League” is much better than the original, but is still lacking in many places.

Rating: 3 out of 5 stars

(Some information courtesy of rottentomatoes.com)