Injustice
When Lois Lane is killed, an unhinged Superman decides to take control of the Earth. Determined to stop him, Batman creates a team of freedom-fighting heroes. But when superheroes go to war, can the world survive?
- Released: 2021-10-09
- Runtime: 78 minutes
- Genre: Animation, Fantasy
- Stars: Justin Hartley, Anson Mount, Laura Bailey, Zach Callison, Brian T. Delaney, Brandon Michael Hall, Edwin Hodge, Oliver Hudson, Gillian Jacobs, Yuri Lowenthal, Derek Phillips, Kevin Pollak, Anika Noni Rose, Reid Scott, Faran Tahir, Fred Tatasciore, Janet Varney, Andrew Morgado, Brandon Micheal Hall
- Director: Matt Peters
Comments
- mikemdp - 6 December 2022
Apalling
There must have been much more nuance, context and characterization in the original comics run of this story. But what is on display here is an absolutely puzzling trashing of the "Superman" legacy. You'll be going, "Wait, what? Why?" throughout.
Long story short, Superman suffers a loss so devastating at the hands of the Joker that his rage drives him to try to eliminate all conflict on Earth. This sees him become a dictator of sorts, killing indiscriminately for even the slightest infractions (what he does to a group of teenage Joker fans at a rave will drop your jaw).
Unbelievably, heroes such as Wonder Woman and Cyborg ally themselves to Superman, even as they witness him carry out these terrible acts and partner with one of Batman's most terrible and violent foes.
Why Superman becomes a murderous despot, and why reasonable heroes would join him is barely explained in ham-fisted exposition that really just exists to somewhat justify Superman's astonishingly cruel violence.
You'll watch this movie shaking your head, thinking, "Why is Superman doing these terrible things?" and "Why is DC taking an absolute dump on its most valuable IP?"
The answer is, I suspect, rooted in this film's source material, which I haven't read (and which, I'll argue, probably most of this film's audience hasn't read). The comic book story was probably a thoughtful deconstruction of the superhero mythos; likely a meditation on the idea that power, even super power, is corruptible under certain and maybe tragic circumstances.
But none of that intellectual argument is present in this film. It's just Superman acting completely out of the character developed for him over the past nearly 90 years, with a lot of bloody and violent set pieces, and an ending even more stupid than that of "Batman Vs. Superman: Dawn of Justice."
Considering also the weird character designs and clunky limited animation, what results is an absolutely appalling entry in the often otherwise excellent DC Animated Universe film series.
I can't not recommend this movie highly enough. - cowthecows - 23 July 2022
Overall Enjoyable, just too fast...
I came to see this movie after some clips of it was shown on some social media and caught my attention. I decided to watch it and honestly it was a nice movie although something seemed off key... the reason for it was actually the rush the directors had given to it.
First rush is Joker kill. Just at the beginning of the movie they just started getting joker moved and then the next thing you know they started blazing and superman accidentally killed his wife and his unborn wife. When I saw that superman killed joker I was like... okay?? What's next??
Next things was trash too, very moved and rush, no emotional building, no reason building just..." I'm doing this just because I can". The movie overall was pretty rushed, there was no building whatsoever, this movie had the potential to be 10 outta 10 if it would be divided into 3 parts at least 40 minutes each.
Then you could have the room for buildup and such. One other thing which bothered me was superheroes killings.... Like literally it led me shocked when I was watching those dead scenes. Does DC just have too much Superheroes or what? And let alone their deaths does not makes sense at all. Dick's death was the most disrespectful one. How can you die just from a metal stick?!
You are a damn superhero the laws of gravity and physics gets defined when you are on a universe like this... Atom death didn't make sense too... The only reason this movie takes 4 stars is just for the action thrill. Plot deserves -10.
