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Plot |
In an effort to take control and rule the planet Earth Darkseid (Steve Blum) has sent a vanguard of soldiers to make ready the battlefield for war. While these soldiers have been operating they have also been taking prisoners which some people believe was the work of Batman (Jason O’Mara). Hoping to clear his name and put a stop to this wickedness the real Batman finds one of these soldiers in the act of abducting someone and tracks this solider down and discovers him planting some sort of device. During the pursuit of this soldier Batman meets up with the Green Lantern (Justin Kirk). They determine that the device is alien and the only one that they know who is also alien is Superman (Alan Tudyk) so they both decide to confront Superman. Meanwhile Billy Batson (Zach Callison) is getting to know Victor Stone (Shemar Moore) who shortly later has an accident that turns him into Cyborg and then it is not long before Wonder Woman (Michelle Monaghan) makes her way onto the scene. Now the question is: can this group of individuals who don't really know each other come together as a team before Darkseid can lay waste to the planet Earth? |
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Character Development |
There are only the briefest moments of character development and they only come off wooden and over played and forced, though for the quick paced of events and the short length of the film there were some decent moments of interplay. |
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Acting |
It was nothing really wonderful, but not completely awful either so it really worked out in the end. Some of the voice work better than others and it all could have been better, yet it all was a fair effort. |
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Overview |
This story was enjoyable. I can see that this is really a reimagining of these characters into a world where they first met for the first time and it was obvious that they were setting up the scene for the next movie in a likely series of ones to follow and there is no telling is how this is going to play when Warner Brothers brings Justice League to the big screen with live actors. It was noticeable that Wonder Woman’s costume looked different and less exposed. I think the trick in telling a story with so many characters is giving each enough of their own screen time. Clearly in this tale the time was allotted to actually build a superhero from scratch and that took some time, but whatever a writer is going to do they cannot tell elaborate back stories for all their characters, not if they still want to tell a story with those characters because the movie would be unbelievable long otherwise. |
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