Justice League: Snyder's Cut (2021) Review

Title: Justice League
Year: 2021
Director: Zach Snyder
Country: US 
Language: English 

Let me get this out of the way; I cannot stand Zach Snyder's directing. Scenes are either frustratingly  sped up or they are super slow to the point of comical. His desire to snap zoom (zooming quickly in and out) leaves me nauseous and his insistence of lack of color leaves his pictures bleak and dull. I do my best to avoid his movies, BUT for a long time I heard "wait until Snyder's cut of Justice league comes out, it's going to be a masterpiece!" and I had to endure film twitter being obsessed with #freethesnydercut so...sigh. Here we are.

Determined to ensure Superman's ultimate sacrifice was not in vain, Bruce Wayne (Ben Affleck) aligns forces with Diana Prince (Gal Godot) with plans to recruit a team of metahumans to protect the world from an approaching threat of catastrophic proportions.

I have not seen the original Justice League, so I have nothing to compare Snyder's cut to, but man THIS IS BAD. The Matrix used slow motion ("bullet time") to show impossible scenarios such as Neo dodging a bullet, Synder uses slow motion for meaningless trivial things. A car drives by? slow motion. A background character walks up stairs? slow motion. Snyder is known for his conservative use of cuts, which would be welcome if he had any understanding of how to make a movie. Much of Justice League needs better editing because the story often crawls to a snails pace. 

Justice League is a very bloated 4 hours that felt like a chore to sit though. Nothing about it looks or feels as epic as the story wants itself to be. There are many parts of the film that go nowhere and have no significance to either plot or "character development". For instance, in the beginning Wonder Woman is taking down a terrorist organization that is holding a bank hostage. Who are these people? No explanation. Why are they doing this? No explanation. Are they even mentioned again? Nope. 

This film could have easily had a tighter, more rounded story that got rid of a lot of unnecessary filler, but it's clear Snyder couldn't help himself as he left the worst of his trademarks all over this garbage film. Watch this if you want to abandon all your dreams. 

ZERO STARS