



Video format: MP4 x265 1080p

Audio format: AAC 5.1

Theatrical runtime: 121 min

Avid Recut runtime: 129 min

The Justice League movie... what a mess! Production was a mess, and the internal politics at Warner Brothers was a mess. There is a growing movement online for WB to release the "Snyder Cut" which I find amusing because people have forgotten how much they disliked Zack Snyder's vision with his release of Man Of Steel and Batman v Superman.

Personally I was not one of those people. I loved the dark world Snyder created. It made if different from the happy, colourful Marvel world. The criticism (apart from "Martha" in BvS!) was largely unjustified, and the Avid Recuts of both MoS and BvS maintain the look and feel of Zack Snyder's vision.

Enter Justice League, and its clash of Snyder's dark world against new director Joss Whedon's upbeat comic action. Whedon made a masterpiece with the first Avengers movie, but his tone was at odds with the Snyder world in Justice League.

Having said that, we can olny work with the tools we are given, so the Avid Recut removes most of the awkward humour which doesn't fit (unless you are 10 years old). Also gone is the awful smartphone interview to open the movie - in no other scene is the digital removal of Henry Cavill's mousetache so obvious than here.

Some of the cheesy lines by Steppenwolf have been removed, and even a few of Barry Allen's lines. We get it, Barry is the young comic relief, but it was over done.

Added is the deleted scene of Superman getting his suit back in the Kryptonian ship. We have no idea why this scene was removed, only subtracting from the run time to make Justice League a shorter movie that it should have been.

Also added to help increase run time in the Avid Recut, is the submarine scene from Aquaman to give this character a more satisfying introduction. In the theatrical version Bruce Wayne just finds Arthur in a northern European pub - uneventful and boring! Now we get to see what Aquaman is capable of before Bruce finds him. Adding this scene also fixes a continuity error between Batman fighting the criminal on the rood (where Bruce is clean shaven) and then when he turns up to find Aquaman (where he has a beard!)

Cyborg also gets a little more play time in the Avid Recut, borrowing a sequence from another editor who created the Justice League Black Suit Edition. Now we get to see flashbacks of Victor Stone's footbal career, and some footage of him mastering his new flight ability.

There are few new minor visual effects in the Avid Recut, including some tweaks to the Superman resurection scene, and we now see Steppenwolf landing to take the third Motherbox. One thing that bothered me was the "dead" Clark Kent had normal skin tone, so in the Avid Recut the dormant Clark has near grey skin colour. He then awakens with brighter eyes and a glow when he ascends from the Kryptonian ship. There is a another subtle effect added when touches down to remind us he has just transformed from a dead state to living again.

Finally a new final credits sequence has been created, and a third post credit scene added. The two original post credit scenes remain, but a third is now included to help segue to the next movie, Aquaman.



