YOUR MOVIE REVIEW

GREG Thorp has been a huge film enthusiast from a very young age.

He is a huge fan of Wes Anderson, Quentin Tarantino and Christopher Nolan.

You can email him with comments and observations at: communities@mennews.co.uk

JUSTICE League is a mess.

With its depressingly unpractical and uninspiring imagery, utterly forgettable villain and thin, disjointed plot; the film is a sub-par action flick which offers no improvement on its forerunner BvS (Batman vs Superman).

I spent most of the two hours wondering at the wasted opportunity.

Set many months after the events of BvS, the film starts with Batman seeking out allies to help him conquer a cosmic threat he somehow manages to predict.

With help from Wonder Woman, he enlists the assistance of Aquaman, the Flash and Cyborg to defeat an alien invasion led by a villain whose name is almost as unforgettable as his appearance: Steppenwolf.

There is plenty of cheap and meaningless exposition delivered to us through contrived and clunky pauses in the action of de-immersion. This leaves only the charm of the cast to carry the film. Justice League is rushed.

The DCEU (DC extended universe) has only three other films.

With only one of the three being of a good enough quality, Justice League exists to hopefully revive the franchise, but in no way does it succeed in its objective.

A more sensible approach would have been to make at least one introductory film of each of the characters, so the audience could get to know them, and thus might just have cared if they lived or died! I lost count of how many times I was egging on Steppenwolf to obliterate the entire cast so I could hotfoot it out of the auditorium and get down to the shops instead.

But no such luck. Steppenwolf is a hybrid of an actor and a digital creation, rather than an actual human actor.

He comes across as one-dimensional as the software that created him.

And so, alas, he offers no real threat of doing any real harm to anyone.

Three of the five heroes have never been seen before. In any film. Ever.

The studios rely on the familiarity of Wonder Woman to pull in the punters.

Ultimately, with the film’s comically overused CGI (computer generated imagery), devastatingly forgettable villain and flawed plot, it is a wonder how the film made it into our cinemas in the first place.

But, don’t be put off – go see it anyway, it’s a good excuse to get down to the Christmas sales.