Film Review

Zack Snyder’s Justice League (2021) • HBO Max/Sky Cinema

Determined to ensure Superman’s sacrifice wasn’t in vain, Bruce Wayne and Diana Prince recruit a team of meta-humans to protect the world.

Underwhelming everyone four years ago, Justice League (2017) was never going to be the crowning achievement for such a shambolic bedrock of DC Extended Universe (DCEU) movies, following Man of Steel (2013), Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice (2016), Suicide Squad (2016), and Wonder Woman (2017). Zack Snyder (Watchmen) was the creative mastermind for Warner Bros. and DC Films, who desperately wanted to compete with Disney’s Marvel Studios, but all parties lacked the patience to introduce these characters naturally.

It’s understandable in some respects because the three pillars of the Justice League (Superman, Batman, Wonder Woman) have been household names for decades already, but we’ve since had Aquaman (2018), Shazam! (2019), Birds of Prey (2020), and Wonder Woman 1984 (2020), so now is the time they should be uniting these characters to fight a common enemy.