Justice League: 10 Dumb Plot Holes That Derailed The Film

How in Steppenwolf's name did the writers overlook these?

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Warner Bros.

The long-awaited Justice League movie recently hit cinemas, and reactions have been anything but positive. The movie is sitting with a muted 41% rating over at Rotten Tomatoes, with most critics writing it off as a messy, incoherent, and ultimately boring piece of work that serves only to tarnish the DC Extended Universe name further.

The biggest problem with the Justice League, save for its washy performances, terrible pacing, and bad CGI, though, is its story (if you can even call it that).

There appears to have been no proper attempt made to tell an actual story at all. Instead, writers Chris Terrio and Joss Whedon conjured up some rubbish about mystical boxes and hoped audiences wouldn't notice it made zero sense because, look, all your "favourite" DC heroes have come together in one awesome film!

But really the plot of Justice League is riddled with errors, folks. It's a mindless hodgepodge of random scenes and lame coincidences, sprinkled with a load of plot holes. These plot holes not only serve to undermine the internal logic of the film, they outright prove the filmmakers involved gave little to no bother as to whether the story held up at even the most basic narrative levels. Unforgivable!

10. Clark Kent Goes Back To Work Like It's No Big Deal

Justice League Parademon
Warner Bros.

It wasn't exactly surprising when Superman came back to life mid-way through Justice League, because everyone knew he would. The studio shouldn't have even bothered to try and keep it on the lowdown, it was that obvious.

So, yes, Superman is back in the canon... and he's here to stay, apparently. In one of the last shots of Justice League, after all, we're briefly shown Superman dressed in his Clark Kent guise, returning to work at the Daily Planet.

Wait, what? As if the whole Superman/Clark Kent alter ego thing didn't already make no sense in this era of YouTube and social media, Kent is just going to go back to work to resume his old job, despite the fact that he's reported dead?

No matter how you look at this, it's incredibly iffy. Maybe he revealed his identity, you say? C'mon, it's unlikely Kent revealed his identify to the public and then went back to work as a lowly newspaper reporter with everyone knowing that he's Superman. Essentially, this shot means Superman and Clark Kent return to the world at the same time, in a freak coincidence, despite the fact they look identical.

"Suspension of disbelief" is an understatement, and another sign that the filmmakers have no respect for the universe they're supposed to be building.

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Sam Hill is an ardent cinephile and has been writing about film professionally since 2008. He harbours a particular fondness for western and sci-fi movies.