Zack Snyder's Justice League

Pretty rubbish film. It looks and sounds good on the disk, it's just the plot, character and acting that let it down...

Brilliant remix of this film, remember watching when first came out and felt 'lost' watching it. I put the disc in and pressed play and saw it was about 20mins longer than the original, I thought OK. Then when It came to the end it said 'enter disc 2'! Another hour and half of movie! Picture quality (4K UHD) is stunning and the film works this time around!

It is a Christmas present

Welcome back DC, hooray 😀

Perfection! The way the film was meant to be watched.

This is the best version of the released film. It's a mammoth watch but though it swaps about locations and times it doesn't drag. The Superman rebirth is very well done and Henry Cavill has added depth to his portrayal. Happy to add this to my library.It's a German EU disc, so the disc cover is in their language, but selecting English is offered on screen as it starts. 2 discs because its run time is 240 minutes.

Zack Snyder, with his vindicated 4-hour, restored director's cut, proves that it takes an extraordinary skillset and a colossal vision to direct a great comic-book movie, especially one of this calibre, with breathtaking visual-effects, a captivating, multi-layered story and pace, and with carefully fleshed out characters. It's one of the few CBMs that have caused ripples in the superhero industry, and it will take its throne amongst the pantheon of superhero movies, like THE DARK KNIGHT, BLACK PANTHER, AVENGERS ENDGAME, and of course BATMAN v SUPERMAN (Ultimate Edition).The movie transcends the grand and immersive experience because it shows you, from very early on, that it has a beating heart of emotion at its vast core. This emotion primarily exposes itself through the backstory of the heroes, but also their evolving, deep camaraderie, their overwhelming responsibility to the world, and even in that honest fear of situations going pear-shaped if measures aren't taken and plans aren't carried out. It uses the bones of the conventional we-are-heroes-trying-to-stop-a-villain-who-wants-absolute power-and-destruction but it adds muscle fibres of ominous fairy-tale wonder and mythology to flesh out something more grounded, important, serious, and its organs are these god-like heroes, who have very human feelings, very human lives, and they've got everything to lose if they don't unite against the looming threat of a cosmic evil, Darkseid, and his questionably loyal henchman, Steppenwolf. But what is cleverly exposed in these heroes is their vulnerability. Yes, they're godlike to every mortal, but they have limitations and weaknesses, and there's the ever-present knowledge that without Superman, they won't be able to save the world. And this is where the plot shoots off into its own subplot: Superman's resurrection. Unlike the meagre gathering of rushed scenes we saw in 2017, Superman's resurrection takes its time. This subplot is a startling journey, with a beginning, a middle, and an end.The Flash (Ezra Miller) is now introduced as a character you can invest in, not someone you so easily look over, as in 2017's JL where he's portrayed as a wisecracking goofball than just 'pushes people and runs'. His lightning-speed character is introduced in a mesmerising, slo-mo scene where he himself is also mesmerised by a young woman he saves from a car accident.Jason Momoa's backstory is very touch-and-go, but only because it was thoroughly explored in his Aquaman movie, and therefore a repeat would certainly feel redundant. His wisecracks are toned down a lot, since The Flash takes on that onus, but his surfer-dude vibe and become-a-hero-reluctance make him exceptionally likeable.Gal Gadot’s Diana/Wonder Woman starkly contrasts what we saw in WW84, but brings back the heroine as we saw her (and admittedly fell in love with) in Wonder Woman (2017). She's Batman's voice of reason and pillar of strength, and her fierce warrior spirit really shines when her sword and shield are called for.Ben Affleck's Batman is almost similar to the one we saw in BvS. Almost. Gone are his trepidations and stereotypes of Superman, and although he's still got the gruff voice and stoic bearing that makes Batman Batman, his soul feels lighter, his demons cleansed to some extent, because now he's driven by a noble cause.Ray Fisher's Cyborg is perhaps the character you might feel drawn to the most, only because in Josstice League he was just a CGI decoration slipping from one scene to the next, offering minimal dialogue and proving, in terms of heroic competence, subpar. In ZSJL, we explore the backstory of what made him half machine, the reason behind the overbearing loss he feels and why his relationship with his father is on the rocks. Seeing himself as a monster and his powers as a curse, he goes on a tear-inducing journey of discovering that it's actually the opposite and embracing it.And last but not least, Henry Cavill's Superman. Sadly, his character doesn't receive the same amount of screen time, but ... I mean ... the guy was in a coffin. But his resurrection, his mental journey of rediscovering his identity, reuniting with Lois and Martha, and his overwhelming drive to do good, really make up for that absence. With heroes and a world in dire need, literally shoots back into the iconic, virtuous hero Superman was always meant to symbolise.Clever humour now replaces the Avengers humour of glib and teen comebacks. Dialogue feels natural, with no silence-fillers or needless small-talk (unless it's for characterisation) and it's clear that the script was carefully thought of, with a patter of gravitas and urgency behind every sentence. Although Avengers Endgame is still one of my favourite CBMs, ZSJL exposes AE's desperate accumulation of A-lister actors to be put in the same room as each other and read a script that, although full of humour and plot-ploughing sentences, doesn't feel it had enough TLC or heart poured into it. When you overflow a movie, or scene, with big names whose net worth amounts into the billions territory, you're making less of an impact than intended because you'll inevitably manage to push some into the spotlight and others into shadows. ZSJL has a healthy amount of big names and emerging stars, each with equal screen time. And the 4 hours runtime gives each one the opportunity to shine.Careful pace in between action lets you have everything in measured doses, rather than blow-up-in-your face action sequences that are there just there for the thrill of it and add very little to the story. It's certainly dark (Hey, it's a Snyder film) but it breaks up the dark and gritty shots with more colourful scenes, more than I expected it would, and it's pretty much on par with Avengers Endgame in terms of light/dark scenes ratio, although now AE seems to throb with extravagance and multi-million budgets dumped on VFX to appease more the retinas than the soul.ZSJL is not audience-friendly, but it's a cosmic feast for the eyes and emotionally filling.ZSJL is not the corporate-pleasing hasty botch job that Josstice League was, which, embarrassingly and karmically, ended up pleasing fewer people than intended, but a monument, and it majestically represents a parallel universe where WB hadn't been so easily intimidated by Marvel, hadn't pandered to the bribed 'film critics' (still in Marvel's pocket), hadn't chosen the PG sect of its audience over another, but had stuck to what it was good at: telling a good, emotional, soul-appeasing story. ZSJL represents the more glorious versions of Aquaman, Shazam, Wonder Woman 1984, and Suicide Squad, that what-could-have-been's of the superhero movie industry.ZSJL is escapism at an operatic scale that you can't take your eyes off, accomplishing in 4 hours what other CBMs accomplished in a saga, and you spend the next day going over it in your mind like some awakening addiction. It leaves you with a yearning for more of that bravura and flair and grandeur, for the next part of the story left on the lips of a cliff-hanger.As for the ending ... this is probably one of the main reasons why ZSJL lingers in your mind, pestering your braincells. Earth's last remaining heroes, united with Earth's last remaining villains, the kind of situation that's very rarely explored in a superhero movie, or movies in general, but you know it's going to be a thrilling ride when it does. The cliff-hanger injects in your mind that something terrible will befall mankind, and it's down to a motley crew to save it.The bar has been set high.

Can’t say it was a christmas present