Justice League reviewed by Mark Kermode 

* Clip ends * "He's the comic relief" , the exhaustion in Kermodes voice says it all.

"By comparison, Joel Schumacher's Batman and Robin is a masterclass in coherence, in character development and razor sharp storytelling" If Mark Kermode was a Mortal Kombat character, we'd have just seen his FATALITY move.

I don't think he liked it

If you want a cgi hero this week....Paddington is your man. Paw of Justice.

“He’s the comic relief..” hahahaha absolutes trashing

The threatiest threat in the history of threatiness!😂

The thing that people on the internet don't seem to understand is that when somebody criticises the Justice League film it probably isn't because they are a marvel fan who hates DC films it's probably because they are a DC fan who was genuinely disappointed with the quality of the movie

This is one of Kermode’s best rants in a long time.

"Thunderously boring" Ruthless. Love Kermode.

HELLO DARKNESS MY OLD FRIEND

When he said that JL is a mess and makes Schumacher's Batman films look like master class in filmmaking... you know shits about the get real.

Sooooo looking forward to seeing... ... Paddington 2

"Threatiest threat of threatiness".

6:50 Jesse Eisenberg playing Lex Luther 😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂

I agree with Kermode about the misguided criticism of BvS or MoS being bad because of lack of humor. I couldn't care less if you don't throw one single joke as long you got a good story and engaging characters. Frankly, the lack of jokes is the least of the problems with these movies. I feel this has set WB to a completely wrong course to fix this mess.

My 12 year old (seen-every-MCU-film-20-times) daughter's review was that she "wasn't sure whether it was deliberately corny or not because some parts were sooooo corny."

...but did he like it?

Mark really is disappointed, isn't he?! You can totally feel it.

DC seem to be intent on creating a completely new genre of 'barely films' film. Perhaps it's something we should embrace as we might a newly discovered species of beaver or something.

All of the Superman scenes are hilarious because they had to digitally edit out the actor's moustache and it shoooows so badly. He was contractually bound to keep it due to another role he had while they did reshoots for Justice League. What an epic waste of time and money.

I saw this movie last night and I thought it was meh. Kermode is making this sound like it's a bad as a Transformers movie. Its ok though this movie isn't for everyone and I appreciate your honesty.

Personally was really disappointed as a DC and Cinema fan 😥

As someone who likes all the DCEU films except Suicide Squad, this movie was underwhelming. It's even more clear after this film Warner Bros. have no idea what they're doing.

This is why I am subscribed to this channel.

The only movie that makes you ask your self "How did I get here?"

FYI: Snyder had shot and planned for an almost three-hour final theatrical version... but the head of Warner issued a decree that the film had to be edited down to two hours long (so that its runtime facilitated a maximum number of showings per cinema). It's likely that an extended cut Blu-ray version will be closer to three-hours long... but from the sounds of your review it won't make the film any better or more coherent.

I love that Mark's key Doctor Who reference is 'reverse the polarities'!

also to add the hilarious fact they had to digitally remove Henry Cavill's moustache

I remember watching it and being somewhat surprised that a film could be this bad

I'm gonna have to disagree with Kermode here, those licensed LOTR games were damn fun!

Always enjoy when Kermode drops a video game reference. He mentioned Assassins Creed a while back, now the Lord of the Rings games! Good stuff.

He’s the comic relief *perfectly timed pause* Haha

It's not very often I agree with a film critic, but in this case I do. I came out of the cinema on Friday and I still can't quite describe what I saw. The saddest thing about seeing this film is that I enjoyed the trailers more. All I can say is that I'm really looking forward to seeing Darkest hour. That's all I took away from this "Film", if you can call it that.

Just came out of this and would rather have been watching BVS. That film had ideas, conviction, and character. They were all, absolutely all of them completely wrong, but as Kermode says, I'd rather watch a properly bad film than a half-hearted, boring one

You didn't like it then?

"...the threatiest threat of threatiness..." Yep, that pretty much had me in tears XD

The theatrical release of Justice League was an absolute mess. A Project that was taken over by Joss Wheldon who transformed it into a frankenstien movie. Zach Snyder has been given the opportunity to complete the film as per his original vision. A four hour epic that is being released on HBO Max in 2021.

It's interesting to compare this with Avengers: Endgame. Kermode's comments on the vulnerability of superheroes plays out big time in that movie

I love re-watching this review. One of his best IMO.

I can't see Kermode being willing to sit through 4 hours worth of unadulterated Zack Snyder, but I would enjoy listening to him giving the Snyder Cut an utter kicking

I wish this was longer. Good review

The threaty threat felt truly threatening... heard repeated so many times.

While the threatiest threat of threatiness threatens.

The Flash sounds like Morty from Family Guy. The film is terrible, don't watch it.

Great comment Mark - any superhero film has to have a lead character (and also its villains/supporting cast) with vulnerabilities, nuances and qualities that make them 3 dimensional and allow people to relate to them. The original Spiderman trilogy and the Dark Knight trilogy had this; many of the more recent films haven't, in my opinion.

I think Wonder Woman was a really great film. This was just yet another mess. They really need to learn from WW and not do BvS but with jokes.

Simon’s reaction at 3:04 😂😂😂🤣

Its WWE. People in silly outfits look silly and say silly things, followed by standard choreographed sillyness, which goes on for too long and is of little consequence or surprise. All fine, but don't tell me it's art.

That was pretty brutal.

Didn’t you think the part where steppenwolf attacked the women on the island was awesome? How about the batmobile scene? That was amazing how he was shooting all those bug things while driving backwards. I don’t get how reviewers didn’t like that stuff. But yet they gush when it happens in Thor or Wonder Woman. But if amazing scenes happen in Batman they hate it. I don’t get it

One big problem I noticed was the pacing. They tried _so_ hard to cut the film down to the two-hour mark, and it shows. The scenes have no room to breathe; it's like nearly every moment where the characters weren't doing or saying something important for plot, action setpieces, or the character development outline was chopped out, and perhaps entire character scenes which were necessary only in aggregate. They tried to cram in too much, and then they cut it down.

Ah, a good old fashioned Kermode rant. Made my day, thank you Doctor

If Kenneth Branagh or Wally Pfister had made the exact same film though, he'd have loved it. Murder on the Orient Express was wooden and rubbish too wasn't it?

When Mark's chair creaks in the silence after the clip, it's a judgement in itself.

You're so wrong about this. Yet another example of a film you should watch with a normal audience. The screening I was in was rocking.

hahaha i love it, add this to the list of greatest kermode rants

I enjoyed the movie. Though it doesn't "faithfully adapt" the stories of any particular DC thread or event, this is exactly what it's like to read and follow DC comic books.

Comic nerds need to realise in the general population there is no Marvel fan or DC fan. It's just people who want to watch a good movie

Ah.. Simon's final line is genius.

Joel Schumacher knew he was making a stupid corny batman flick when he did batman, Zack on the other hand, PRETEND he knew how a story or plot of a movie was made

Kermode is national treasure.

Anyone know who he's talking about at 6:10? (really hope it isn't Jason Momoa)

Batman has a grappling hook and he can glide. Wonder Woman CAN fly. That's how they got up there.

7:10 - I haven't seen the film yet, but was Kermode referring to Lex Zuckerberg by any chance?

Finally a succinct and accurate review!

It's been a while since I've been able to just sit back and enjoy a torrent of piping hot Kermode-isms. It's the little things in life that make it worth living.

I watched the movie last night and i share his disappointment and it takes quite a lot for me to be disappointed in a super-hero movie. A lot of the scenes felt cobbled together and disjointed, as though a lot of the story was cut from the movie and left on the cutting room floor. It essentially tried to be the Avengers of 2012 and failed.

Well, I wasn't going to see this film, but based on Mark's recommendation I'll give it a go.

This is DC trying to play catch up with Marvel and failing

This was amazing, had to watch three times. Thanks God for making kermode.

Really wish they'd reduce the number of superhero movies made nowadays. I like the odd one but you can mine a subject too much and too often.

This is the first review of the film that I find to be accurate. DC is way too obsessed with catching Marvel. And , as a result , the films no longer have any semblance of self . I was hoping that DC would continue the adult themes set by Nolan . While the first couple had some flaws ( which I put down to pandering ) I was hopeful that they would decide on which side of the fence they wanted to be on and focus on building films around character and the weight of responsibility given incredible power . The reference to Schumacher is very fitting imo. The poor writing , plot and character development will lead to a destruction of the franchise. For me , like Affleck , that's it . I'm done spending money on these films. Why watch a faux Marvel when you can get the real thing .

He’s spot on about Dr Who’s running out of threat levels

I can understand why DC wanted to fast-track the extended universe and bring JL to the big screen having seen how successful the Marvel cinematic universe had become. But Marvel had taken it's time to develop each character with solo movies and guest slots into other movies to introduce the next etc. They had also used different directors throughout keeping it relatively fresh (albeit it within the same mold). DC's decision to stick with ZS is crazy (imo), MoS bored me to tears, BvS was actually worse. As MK says there was zero attempt at storytelling and narrative throughout! ZS must be the greatest salesman that ever lived to have sold whatever universe he was creating to DC and keep being called back!

Same thing happens to me. I look at you and wonder how did you get there?

I'm not going to lie. I absolutely despise 2/4 of the DC extended universe films (Wonder Woman is great though.) Even with that being said I'm kind of fascinated to see what the final cut of this film looks like (not seen it myself yet) just because of the sheer number of production issues that were involved in making it. I'm legitimately amazed they were able to get it finished on time. If I were to take a guess I'd say the production and back story behind the film will be more interesting than the film itself.

Rushed as Marvel doing well, needed origin films linking up to this mostly Cyborg and Aquaman

I imagine the fanboys spamming IMDB and giving this trash perfect reviews 🤣🤣🤣

Really? How low do you have to go to be complaining about how characters got on top of buildings? Pretty sure that Batman did that in the dark knight trilogy. And you didn't make a fuss about that. Just shows how bias critics are towards the DCEU and Zack Snyder. "The flash is the comic relief". Okay so he cracks a few jokes. Didn't see you making the same comparison with Iron Man, Ant-Man or Star Lord. And I bet that if he wasn't joking then you would be complaining that the movie is too dark.

The “Michael Bolton problem” is the death of narrative cinema

"... he's the comic relief - Um, ..."

Hilarious review. Made me laugh on a Friday evening

Ezra Miller was trying to be in this movie what Tom Holland was to Captain America Civil War.

The threatiest threat of all time...Gotta love Kermode.

Mayo cracked me up so much in this review hahah

Never a truer word said. At first I liked it. But then I think I’m just sticking up for a franchise that doesn’t care and it’s embarrassing as fans. This will be looked back on like green lantern, x men origin and the StarWars prequels

Do they make these films bad as part of an elaborate scheme to sell extended blu rays? Because the 3 hour directors cut show more of the plot? I'm really want to know.

Who was the character that came back at the end that Mark was talking about?

I watched it. Not as bad as ppl say, not great, but eatchable. Actually enjoyed this more than avengers: age of ultron. Less arguing, more hopeful, fun. Much better than suidice squad.

Epic rant from kermode 💋😂🤣😅🤣

NUMBER 10 ON TRENDING BABY

Thanks. Now I know what I won't be doing this weekend.

“ it has the Michael Bolton problem: Where do we go from here?” 😆😅😂🤣💀

Will judge for myself. I have disagreed with Mark before but respect his opinions. Let's remember Mark did like High School Musical .... and Antichrist lol

I don't like it when people compare the dark knight to wonder woman. It's like comparing diamonds to coal. Yes, they are both carbon based... But come on, just don't

This review makes me want to see even more.

I haven't seen it but i imagine that end character he is talking about is Jesse Eisenberg's Luthor lol

Loooooved this movie

I Agree

(Using Mark Kermode's squeaky voice from his Sucker Punch review): ZACK SNYDER! JOSS WHEDON! ZACK SNYDER! JOSS WHEDON! (repeated ad nauseum)