With Superman (Henry Cavill) dead, and the world
threatened by a giant alien (Ciaran Hinds) with a scheme to unleash apocalyptic
destruction, Batman (Ben Affleck) and Wonder Woman (Gal Gadot) assemble a team
of superheroes or, in DC Comics parlance, metahumans — the Flash (Ezra Miller),
Aquaman (Jason Momoa) and Cyborg (Ray Fisher) — to thwart the invader. Picking
up where his 2016 feature, "Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice," left
off, director Zack Snyder deploys predictably outsized special effects. But the
meager, been-here-before story laid out in Chris Terrio and Joss Whedon's
screenplay features a crucial plot development that may not go down well with
Christian viewers and offers little in the way of human interest, though there
are laughs to be had from the Flash's socially inept persona.
Watch out for: Constant
stylized violence, two uses of profanity, a milder oath, several crude and a
couple of crass terms, some bleeped-out swearing.
Rated: A-III, adults; MPAA:
PG-13
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