Movie Review
Big names and a R4.3-billion bugdet fail to rescue 'Justice League'
After the ordeal of making 'Justice League', Warner Bros must be wishing it had some super powers itself, writes Robbie Collin
19 November 2017 - 00:00
Is it just me, or is there a detectable gulp of anxiety in the advertising campaign for Justice League, Warner Bros' superhero get-together? When you're uniting six comic-book legends for the first time on screen, the tag line "All In" has a rousing, Musketeerish ring to it.
But the expression has nothing to do with teamwork: it's from poker, and describes a last-ditch, bank-breaking gamble by a beleaguered player desperate to turn around their luck.
Unbelievably, that's a pretty fair description of where Warner Bros are at right now with this film: the fifth in the studio's DC Extended Universe franchise, after Man of Steel, Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice, Suicide Squad and Wonder Woman...
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