Michael Imbesi

It’s substantially better than the craptacular flop that Joss Whedon created, but that’s not a high bar. It’s four hours long and some of it is actually good. But some of it is still pretty bad. Overall, it’s throughly mediocre. There are times you’ll marvel at the excellent cinematography. And there are times you’ll want to yell “shut up” at your TV. The action scenes are either colorless or else they’re so poorly lit you’ll have no idea what’s actually going on anyway. The actors have all the chemistry of a pile of bricks. The dialogue ranges from meaningful to vapid and quippy. The first scene with the Flash was definitely meant to feel cute and romantic, but it actually just comes off as creepy. And a lot of the heroes come off as basically just being angsty teenagers who are angry at each other for no real reason. And Darkseid comes off like a cartoon villain who’s evil for the sake of being evil. There’s no depth or motivation. Overall, it’s an improvement over the theatrical cut, but it’s still meh. It just feels like your basic, average, run of the mill CGI slugfest. If you already have HBO, it’s worth a watch. But don’t buy HBO just to watch it.

It does a good job of reporting on stuff like flags of convenience. It also does a good job of being dishonest about a lot of other stuff and ignoring or glossing over any facts that would be inconvenient for it's message. All-in-all, your typical *very serious* documentary where the narrator tries for gravitas but overshoots and ends up being accidentally hilarious.