It is both better & worse than the theatrical release. Better overall, but to call it a masterpiece is ridiculous. Story wise this is vastly superior, but it is also exceptional at wasting time. The slow motion was at times excruciatingly slow & over extended. Plus there were a lot of scenes where nothing is happening that's worth the time to be shown. Like Batman's entire trek across snowy mountains in the intro, or weird scenes like the women singing at Aquaman swimming away. We all literally looked around at each other with a "what the hell?" expression at that uncomfortably long scene. I really liked it, but I can't imagine watching it again without fast forwarding.