Justice League: 10 Things It Should Have Done Differently
6. Harder-Hitting Action Sequences
To say Justice League lacks any memorable action sequences is unfair. The final battle in Chernobyl is suitably chaotic and bombastic, plus seeing Superman and Wonder Woman exchange headbutts really hits home.
Those examples are all well and good, but the action set pieces on the whole fall flat as much as they shake the pillars of the franchise. Many of the fight scenes feel disjointed, hampered by rickety effects and lacking the visual flare usually associated with Zack Snyder.
Even when at its best in this regard, there's nothing in Justice League that comes anywhere close to matching the Led Zeppelin-fuelled final showdown in Thor: Ragnarok. At no point does the action set pulses racing or spines tingling, and it really should have - this is Batman, Superman, and Wonder Woman we're talking about.
More disappointingly, the set pieces fall short by the series' own hit-and-miss standards. Batman and Superman's epic scrap in Dawn of Justice trumps anything in Justice League (if you can ignore the 'Martha' scene at the end), and even Man of Steel's misguided demolition of Metropolis was a bigger spectacle.
All of the stops should have been pulled out in Justice League to ensure the action punched harder, and given that this is an ensemble movie featuring all of DC's biggest heroes, there was is no excuse for being outdone by Thor and Hulk this time.