Justice League: Warworld Review

 

NOTE!: THERE WILL BE SPOILERS!

Justice League: Warworld is a comic book movie and the seventh installment of the Tomorrowverse. It's produced by DC Entertainment and Warner Bros. Animation and distributed by Warner Bros. Home Entertainment. Justice League: Warworld is written by Jeremy Adams, Ernie Altbacker, and Josie Campbell and directed by Jeff Wamester.

The story is Superman, Batman, and Wonder Woman have found themselves trapped on the brutal and gladiatorial planet known as Warworld. Now, the trio must find a way to form a resistance and lead an entire planet to freedom.

Initial Reaction

To put it simply, after the post-credit scene to Legion of Super-Heroes, I fully pumped for this one. Warworld can be a very entertaining story, even if it's just a simple gladiator thing it has going on.

Cons

The movie's biggest problem, and I do mean biggest problem is, the story. No hyperbole it is a mess. There are three major issues with it.

1) There's Barely Any Warworld

Most of the movie is centered around Superman, Batman, and Wonder Woman all being trapped in different illusions. We spend I wanna say, an hour of these three trying to figure if what there seeing is real or not. Like I said, that part of the story is an hour long. And considering the runtime is an hour and twenty-nine minutes, that's not good. Then we finally do get to Warworld, it's just Mongul's throne room/main control room. Not the big epic gladiator coliseum. Talk about a let down.

2) Lots of Questions

We barely get to know anything about anything. Such as it's never explained why Mongul decided to go the illusions route. There's also one scene that left me confused. Basically when Wonder Woman sees Clark in his Superman suit, she says how he's a baby compared to the Superman she knows. Wait what?! Does that mean this is the same Wonder Woman we saw in Justice Society: World War II, or is this a Wonder Woman from another alternate dimension? I don't know, cause the movie never told us.

3) Rush to The Next Movie

By the time we're finished with the illusion storyline and we get to Warworld, afterwards, it's a total rush. And you both feel and see that rushed job. One moment it's all about Mongul's motivation, then it's all about fighting for the control for Warworld, then it's all about destroying Warworld, and then it's all about getting off Warworld because the Trinity [Superman, Batman, and Wonder Woman] are needed for the impending crisis. I'll touch on that last one later, anyhow, all of this happened in the spam of the last I think fifteen minutes, maybe less than that. It's like the writers were like "Oh sh*t! We were having so much fun with the what if stories, we almost forgot about Warworld! Quick! Write something down!" Now I used the big word 'crisis', and yes, it has been officially confirmed that there will be an animated Crisis on Infinite Earths movie. So basically instead of this mainly focusing on Warworld then the plug, everything is just about Crisis on Infinite Earths. Which kinda makes this movie feel like filler and can just be skipped.

Middle Ground

Now the action in the movie was pretty good. I just wish there was a better story to go along with it.

Pros

Really the only good thing about this movie is the cast. Despite how terrible the story is, they still did a good job given the stuff they had to work with.

Sadly Justice League: Warworld is a total letdown. Sure, there's a slightly redeeming and a very redeeming quality, but those two things just aren't enough to save this movie. If any of want a good Warworld story, go watch the tenth and eleventh episode of the animated series simply titled Justice League and/or read the recent Action Comics storyline with issues #1030-1046 and the one-shot Warworld Apocalypse. Hopefully those two are good enough if you were left disappointed like I was.

My final rating is, Bad.

So, that's all for now. After watching this I'm kind of scared how they'll handle Crisis on Infinite Earths, fingers crossed it'll be good. Anyways, Come back on Saturday, Jul 29th, for my review of Nicolas Cage's newest movie, Sympathy for the Devil. And if I don't have a review for that because of one reason or the other, then come back on Monday, Jul 31st, for part three of Looking Back at the Films of 2022. Until then, enjoy the rest of your day.