Zack Snyder's Justice League divides critics - ABC News

In 2017, critics and fans gave an overwhelming thumbs down to Joss Whedon's take on Justice League. 

The film was supposed to be directed by Zack Snyder, but a family tragedy saw him and his producer wife step down before it was finished.  

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It's four-hour running time makes it one of the longest films ever released in Hollywood, but how can you watch Zack Snyder's Justice League in Australia?

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Now Snyder's vision for the film — a gritty, lengthy epic — has finally been brought to life following a fan-led campaign for its release. 

Zack Snyder's Justice League will premiere in Australia on Binge at 6:00pm AEDT today, the same time as the rest of the world.

But a few critics have already sat through the 242 minutes of the film.

And opinions are split. 

Some liked it:

"Emerging after four fandom-fevered years, Zack Snyder's Justice League is unabashedly long and, I daresay of a superhero film, personal."

- Richard Lawson for Vanity Fair

"But improving on something as horrendous as the original Justice League isn’t difficult. The truly challenging, perhaps impossible, task would be making Justice League something remarkable. That would’ve been awesome to see. But that isn’t the Snyder Cut."

- Alex Abad-Santos for Vox

"Almost four years and an unrelenting fan campaign later, we now have a four-hour cut that lives up to its title. For the most part, it’s for the better."

- Amon Warmann for Empire

"The new movie — and make no mistake, it really is a new movie — is more than a vindication of Snyder’s original vision. It’s a grand, nimble, and immersive entertainment, a team-of-heroes origin story that, at heart, is classically conventional, yet it’s now told with such an intoxicating childlike sincerity and ominous fairy-tale wonder that it takes you back to what comic books, at their best, have always sought to do: make you feel like you’re seeing gods at play on Earth."

- Owen Gleiberman for Variety

"Zack Snyder's Justice League is a surprise vindication for the director and the fans that believed in his vision. With a mature approach to its superhero drama, better-realized antagonists, and improved action, Snyder's version of Justice League saves the movie from the dustbin of history."

- Tom Jorgensen for IGN

And some hated it

"This cut is no worse than the theatrical edition, but it sure is longer."

- Darren Franich for Entertainment Weekly

"Snyder self-consciously mashes as much story into the time frame as possible, tagging the end with countless dangling threads that could have been woven into a larger tapestry of future DC Comics movies — had his cut seen release earlier."

- Maya Phillips for New York Times

"Snyder hasn't just realized his original vision for Justice League, the third in a trilogy of dour, bombastic, occasionally striking vehicles for the world's finest and friends. He's expanded it, too, spending a reported $70 million of new Warner Bros. money on a reconceived finale and a convoluted flex of an epilogue that manages to squeeze several more faces, old and new, into an already overcrowded ensemble"

- A A Dowd for the AV Club

"Willfully unstructured and emphatically stationary, Zack Snyder's Justice League could be taken as an intentional travesty of the superhero genre, if only it weren’t so tortuously tedious."

- Pat Brown for Slant

"But the movie's soul, such as it is, remains unimproved, and at 242 minutes, very few of them offering much pleasure, it's nearly unendurable as a single-sitting experience."

- John DeFore for Hollywood Reporter

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