Zack Snyder Justice League Review
What began as a show of anger and disappointment at the premiere of "Justice League" in 2017, a film that did not represent at all the original vision of Zack Snyder who had to leave the project due to a family misfortune, has culminated in this 2021 at the launch on the HBO Max streaming platform of “Zack Snyder's Justice League”, “Zack Snyder's Justice League” in Spanish. A new film that collects all the original material recorded by Snyder, plus some extra sequences thanks to the return to filming that they did last year, and that represents the definitive victory of the #ReleaseTheSnyderCut movement.
It is difficult to talk about a film that has come to have the status of a myth and about which so much and so long has been speculated. Black and white images released by Snyder himself, eternal rumors about the duration, what appeared in it or directly its existence, all this causes the writer of these lines a strange sensation when the film begins and what, during So long it's been nothing but a dream "Zack Snyder’s Justice League" is here.
The film's four-hour duration is no problem when the story being told is so compelling and so moving. Unfortunately, we already know the general structure of the film thanks to its theatrical release, the product of innumerable and sometimes unnecessary reshoots, but Snyder's version travels a different path that gives it its own and very personal identity, to no one's surprise. . Obviously it also helps that the long duration allows the director to expand on each of the passages to develop in depth this world and the characters that inhabit it.
In that sense, "Zack Snyder’s Justice League" is the next episode in the story that began in "Man of Steel" and then continued in "Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice." It is the continuation of those two previous installments and the threat has never been greater but even so we are facing a film with a tone not as serious as its predecessors, something that had already advanced even before filming. A film that obviously takes its approach seriously but is not afraid to show true moments of humor or simply camaraderie. There will be time to discuss this issue in depth, but seeing the final result it is even more incredible that Warner Bros. will choose to re-record many scenes that should not have been touched, something that we already speculated from the beginning but that here is blatantly evident.
We are facing a choral film, Zack Snyder and Chris Terrio know it and put a greater focus on the evolution of the characters, continuing for example with the personal journeys of those we have already known as Batman, Wonder Woman and Superman. Especially the case of Batman, magnificently played by Ben Affleck again, which shows how the influence of Superman has changed him in the deepest part of his being. And speaking of the man of steel, without going into spoilers only to say that Snyder once again shows that he understands the character like no one else. To end the trinity, note that this Wonder Woman, who returns from the hand of Gal Gadot (at that time she had already defined the Amazon with her first individual film), is an example of hope and a role model that guides others in their moments of weakness. To highlight the interesting dynamic he has with Arthur Curry, aka Aquaman.