So the movie follows Jon Constantine and Raven and a depowered superman, but for a large part of the movie what they're doing isn't really important because the plot is being told in flashbacks.
This movie sucked, but more than that it made me disgusted. I've never liked the Nu52 animated movies, I've always thought they were pretty terribly written and overly "edgy," but I didn't think I'd see a movie where a homicidal Superman would demand the Justice League mount a preemptive military strike on Apokolips, everyone would agree, and then multiple prolonged cuts of DC heroes and heroines being graphically eviscerated, eaten, and quartered. It's like the panel of Ultimate Blob eating Ultimate Wasp but 20 or so times.
After some really dumb shit with Trigon becoming good and agreeing to trap himself forever for no raisin, everyone (including robo scorpion zombie Mera and body horror Starfire) sits in front of the destroyed Titans Tower while Batman basically says the earth is fucked no matter what they do now. They all star into the middle distance and contemplate group suicide when Constantine finally convinces Flash to just smash the reset button and make all of this completely fucking pointless.
There's other shit to harp on: overuse of bad CG, some extremely questionable explosion effects in a very important scene, the fucking hilariously stupid look of the ParaDoom army, but really I'd kinda made up my mind at seeing Mera's head get ripped open and Batgirl get Resident Evil'd.
This movie sucked, but more than that it made me disgusted. I've never liked the Nu52 animated movies, I've always thought they were pretty terribly written and overly "edgy," but I didn't think I'd see a movie where a homicidal Superman would demand the Justice League mount a preemptive military strike on Apokolips, everyone would agree, and then multiple prolonged cuts of DC heroes and heroines being graphically eviscerated, eaten, and quartered. It's like the panel of Ultimate Blob eating Ultimate Wasp but 20 or so times.
After some really dumb shit with Trigon becoming good and agreeing to trap himself forever for no raisin, everyone (including robo scorpion zombie Mera and body horror Starfire) sits in front of the destroyed Titans Tower while Batman basically says the earth is fucked no matter what they do now. They all star into the middle distance and contemplate group suicide when Constantine finally convinces Flash to just smash the reset button and make all of this completely fucking pointless.
There's other shit to harp on: overuse of bad CG, some extremely questionable explosion effects in a very important scene, the fucking hilariously stupid look of the ParaDoom army, but really I'd kinda made up my mind at seeing Mera's head get ripped open and Batgirl get Resident Evil'd.