Zack Snyder's Justice League is indulgent. The acting has better range, vulnerability, and sincerity. Characters are developed, motivated, and relatable. There's more natural dialogue, conflict depth, payoff, and personal stakes. It's generally coherent. However, while writing issues are lessened, they still exist. The villain's evil plot is stale, boring MacGuffins are central, and it's all a predictable superhero team-up trope. The protagonists remain generic, the villain is mediocre, and the story is derivative. Plus, there are multiple tacked-on endings, repetitive plot devices, and a meandering structure. Ultimately, Snyder Cut is cohesive, but fallible and cliche.
Technically, Snyder Cut is consistent but reckless. The sound has stings, emphasis, echoes, risers, action, sci-fi, and split cuts, yet gets noisy. Its overdramatic music offers mood, tension, and motifs. The production design has aesthetic and tangibility, yet is strangely sterile. Its CGI looks less artificial but is still emotionally distancing. The imagery uses focus, lighting, desaturation, and motion, yet the aspect ratio weakens framing. Lastly, its editing utilizes slo-mo, cross cuts, chapters, intercuts, montages, and pacing, but the ending is cluttered and the bloated runtime drags. Overall, Snyder Cut has tone, orientation, and style, yet becomes excessive and exhausting.
Writing: 4/10
Direction: 5/10
Cinematography: 6/10
Acting: 7/10
Editing: 4/10
Sound: 8/10
Score/Soundtrack: 6/10
Production Design: 6/10
Casting: 9/10
Effects: 6/10
Overall Score: 6.1/10
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