10 Rotten Tomatoes Scores For 2021 Movies NOBODY Saw Coming

10. Zack Snyder's Justice League (71%)

As much as fans were thrilled to see Zack Snyder finally being given the opportunity to complete the original vision for his Justice League - which was unceremoniously chopped up and substantially re-shot by Joss Whedon at Warner Bros.' request - would it have surprised anyone if the Snyder Cut was a total mess?

It hardly seemed like doubling the runtime was going to endear critics to this new version, and given the wildly apathetic critical response to the 2017 Whedon-helmed release - a tepid 40% on the Tomatometer - the most realistic outcome was surely an incremental improvement at best.

A shock it was, then, when the Snyder Cut near-doubled the critical approval of the Whedon Cut, landing a respectable 71%.

Though it was indeed an overlong, everything-but-the-kitchen-sink exercise in fan service and featured some frankly godawful CGI, it at least felt like a film synthesised from an artist's vision rather than a hollow, committee-assembled mess.

The only thing stranger than the Snyder Cut going down well with critics? Snyder's second release in 2021, Army of the Dead, was also broadly praised, giving the wildly divisive filmmaker two critically Fresh films in a single year. Nobody saw that coming.