Genre: Action/Superhero
Director: JJ Abrams
Writers: Mo Buck, Dominic Wilkins & Harry Wright
Based on DC Comics characters
Cast: Jon Hamm, Joel Edgerton, Edgar Ramirez, Alicia Vikander, Amanda Seyfried, Christoph Waltz, James Remar, Dominic Purcell, Jim Caviezel, Hafbor Julius Bjornsson, Tim Roth, Sofia Black-D'Elia, Mandy Moore, Steve Buscemi
Plot: Silver Sorceress (Sofia Black-D’Elia) tries to run away from the Extremists on her devasted home planet of Angor, but Gorgon (Dominic Purcell) is able to capture her. With Tracer (Hafbor Julius Bjornsson) and Lord Havok’s help they are able to capture her. They bring her over to Dreamslayer (James Remar) who enters her mind. Doctor Diehard (Christoph Waltz) asks Dreamslayer where she went and Dreamslayer says she visited her. He uses the Silver Sorceress’ powers and he creates a portal for them to go through and push her inside to see if its safe.
Blue Jay (Tim Roth) was teleported in 90’s Russia. He runs around Moscow and he asks people where to find his leader, Mikhail Gorbachev and people give him a dirty look. He is unaware of the fact that the Soviet Union collapsed. Saddened by the state of his beloved country, he starts drinking. A montage is shown with Blue Jay trying to convince people that a great menace is coming from another galaxy over several days, but people don’t take him seriously, thinking he’s a drunk lunatic who dresses up like a superhero. He ends up being depressed and day-drinking.
Nathaniel Adam (Jon Hamm) arrives in Paris alongside JLE liaison agent Catherine Corbet. Nathaniel is surprised to see the current state of Paris and she explains what happened with Maurice Puanteur and how Crimson Fox and Power Girl saved the day. She says these events led to the creation of the Europe branch of Justice League and she has been chosen to assemble it. As they enter their headquarters, she explains there hasn’t been a threat yet, but she wants to form her team. He is curious why she chose him and she says there aren’t many superheroes in Europe and he can cover long distances quickly. He has the leadership qualities she was looking for and he’s popular amongst the American crowd, so her branch could gain notoriety. She tells Nathaniel to settle in and he does.
A man is seen walking in the streets in Moscow, where he encounters the badly beat-up and bloodied body of the Silver Sorceress. He contacts the competent authorities and her body is shipped to the Justice League Europe embassy in Paris through the direct portal between the Moscow and Paris embassy. Catherine Corbet arrives in the embassy with Power Girl (Amanda Seyfried) and Crimson Fox (Alicia Vikander), the local heroes. She wants to introduce them to Nathaniel, but they find him in his Captain Atom form, telling them not to get too close. He’s inspecting Silver Sorceress’ body. He claims it comes from another galaxy, but he deems it safe. Catherine says it came from Moscow and Captain Atom gets upset when she talks about the Soviet Union. Constance laughs, saying the Soviet Union isn’t a thing anymore and Captain Atom says he hates Russians anyway. Catherine hopes they get along as she leaves to get another JLE member. In private, Power Girl confides in Captain Atom that she can feel he’s a true superhero, but Constance isn’t a real superhero and isn’t really experienced. He promises her he’ll keep an eye on Crimson Fox.
Rex Mason, aka Metamorpho (Edgar Ramirez) is standing outside, in an open field, practicing his shape-shifting abilities, as he is still recovering from his reanimation. He sets himself a timer and when the countdown begins, he tries to do as many shapes as he can. He breathes heavily when the countdown expires. His quietude is interrupted by Catherine Cobert applauding him. He transforms himself into water and goes underground. She says she isn’t here to kill him and she doesn’t have any time to waste, she needs his help. She is nearly injured after her car explodes, thanks to Metamorpho. He reappears right next to her and asks her if she needs help saving the world and she says she could be. He says he’s sorry he blew her car up, he didn’t trust her at first. She asks how is she going to get back to France and Metamorpho transforms himself into a plane and they take off.
In the middle of the day, in the heart of Moscow, Doctor Diehard exits his portal and Dreamslayer, Gorgon, Lord Havok and Tracer are soon to follow. People are afraid at their sight and run away screaming. Doctor Diehard creates an immense magnetic field, blocking all communication across the city. As Gorgon and Tracer wreck havoc with their superhuman strength, Dreamslayer is analyzing Earth with his telepathic powers. With the ensuing chaos, the army was called and Lord Havok uses his forced fields and energy projections to keep the forces away from them.
We cut to Blue Jay drinking in a bar. After they heard the explosions, Blue Jay says he warned them and nobody believed him. The bartender says he must go and save the world, because that’s what superheroes do. He tries to shrink, but he’s too drunk to use his powers. They all say he’s a fraud and they kick him out. He runs through the streets of Moscow, desperately trying to find the Justice League Embassy in all the chaos. He finds the building and he tries to call Justice League Europe, to no avail.
In an old and dirty apartment, Dmitri Pushkin (Joel Edgerton) wakes up and as his block is shaking from the Extremists attack in the streets. He’s wearing his dirty wifebeater, day-sleeping again. He hasn’t been joyful since the Soviet Union’s collapse. He swears when he kicks down an half-full vodka bottle when he gets up. He gets to his window and he sees the fires and explosion. He opens his closet and sees his Rocket Red armor. He wrestles with the thought of using it and decides to do it, for the nation.
Doctor Diehard feels a discrepancy with his magnetic field and Dreamslayer locates it. They get on Tracer and Gorgon’s back and they run to the JLE embassy, where they see Blue Jay trying to contact someone. He sees them staring at him and he shrinks himself. He jumps up and down on the alert button, but he isn’t heavy enough to push it. They send Tracer in and with his animal-like quality, he chases the tiny Blue Jay across the embassy. Doctor Diehard maintains his magnetic field and Gorgon and Lord Havok protect him and Dreamslayer. Blue Jay hides from Tracer under desks when he feels the explosion getting more intense. He climbs on a desk and sees Rocket Red trying to fight the Extremists outside. A rocket lands near Doctor Diehard and disrupts his magnetic field. Blue Jay runs to the alert button and increases his size a thousand times, crushing the button. His head went throught the roof and he feels dizzy. Tracer and Gorgon jump on him and Blue Jay decreases his size exponentially causing them to collide into one another.
Back at the JLE headquarters, Crimson Fox is teaching a French class to the rest of the JLE members. Metamorpho is attracted to Crimson Fox and he finds it really hot when she speaks French. He interrupts her constantly to flirt with her and Nathaniel cuts him off. He says he may have been gone for ten years, but he knows a Sapphire Stagg that wouldn’t be happy to learn that her beloved Rex is flirting with another woman. Metamorpho calls Nathaniel a party pooper and he asks him why he’s so uptight all the time. He would benefit from loosing it up once in a while. Power Girl asks them to come back to the lesson and to let their schoolboy behaviors aside. Crimson Fox uses her pheromones to attract the two men even more to mess with them, but they don’t have the time to do anything, because they receive an alert from the Moscow embassy. Catherine asks them to get there as soon as possible and they improvise a mean of transportation. Metamorpho forms a bubble and Power Girl and Crimson Fox get in it. Captain Atom uses his powers to carry them on his shoulder and they travel at a really high speed. They get to Russia in no time, only to find Rocket Red fighting the Extremists. Blue Jay sees all the heroes near him and he slowly crawls into the direct portal to the JLE embassy.
Captain Atom sees Rocket Red and he refuses to fight alongside him, thanks to his Soviet allegiance. Crimson Fox is already in trouble against the gigantic Tracer, her pheromones don’t work against the beast. She uses them against Captain Atom to get him to protect her and start fighting. He fights Tracer and sends him away. Metamorpho is trying to shape-shift his way to Dreamslayer, but he’s able to reconstruct his molecules thanks to his powers, rendering Metamorpho’s powers ineffective. Lord Havok is trying to hit Captain Atom with energy projections, but he’s able to counter them. Power Girl focuses her energy trying to protect Crimson Fox and she’s distracted enough to allow Gorgon to take her out and down goes Crimson Fox with her.
Blue Jay reduced himself to a microscopic size to sneak around the JLE headquarters. He walks slowly and he doesn’t see anyone. He enters a room and he sees Silver Sorceress plugged to machines. He regains his normal size and he tries to wake her up. Catherine Cobert comes back from the bathroom and she sees Blue Jay next to Silver Sorceress. She grabs a baseball bat and sneaks behind him before knocking him down. Catherine Corbet runs some tests on Blue Jay and realises he’s from the same place as Silver Sorceress.
Rocket Red is flying around trying to dodge Lord Havok’s attack when Doctor Diehard gets into the fight. He uses his magnetic powers to disrupt Rocket Red’s armor and he decides to fly away before it is completely destroyed. Dreamslayer’s constant attacks on Metamorpho got the better of him and he defeats him. Captain Atom looks around and he sees he’s the last JLE member remaining. He hides from the Extremists and he concentrates to generate a high amount of matter and he throws it at the Extremists. In the meantime, he uses his super-speed and strength to gatter the JLE together and he tries to get them away from Moscow. Captain Atom struggles to fly with all of them on his shoulders and he gets the unexpected help from Rocket Red to carry them away, they’re going back to Paris to regroup.
Catherine is next to Blue Jay when he awakens. She says she’s sorry about before ad she wants to ask him some questions. He asks her if Silver Sorceress is alright and she says she doesn’t know. She asks him where do they come from and he tells them their backstory. He says the Extremists are in Russia right now and they must be stopped. After what they have done with his home world of Angor, he fears they’re about to do the same with Earth.
Doctor Diehard asks Dreamslayer what he discovered while he was analysing Earth and he discovered a large array of nuclear weapons nearby and all over the world, really. Doctor Diehard, in his quest to conquer the galaxy, says they should take over the nuclear weapon arsenal and commit a global genocide, so they can control it, just like they control Angor. Gorgon, Tracer and Lord Havok, nursing their injuries, nod in approval.
Captain Atom arrives at the JLE headquarters with companions and he introduces Rocket Red to Catherine while she helps Metamorpho, Power Girl and Crimson Fox as good as she can. She finds it odd that Nathaniel accepted to collaborate with the Soviet Rocket Red and he says what’s happening is beyond political beliefs. He saw what they could do and they aren’t to be treated lightly. While Catherine nurses the heroes, Captain Atom and Rocket Red work on the latter’s armor while Blue Jay introduces himself. Rocket Red wants to go at them again for what they did to his country, but Blue Jay and Nathaniel reason him, saying it’s irresponsible.
As the JLE lick their wounds, we see a montage of the Extremists (as they are labeled by the media) taking control of the Earth’s nuclear arsenal. Gorgon and Tracer team up to throw the missiles into the stratosphere and Doctor Diehard uses his powers to maintain them in it, pointed towards the Earth. They fight armies upon armies, but no one is able to fight them. The frustration grows amongst the JLE members as they see the Extremists succeeding in their evil plan. Doctor Diehard addresses the United Nations and he orders the immediate surrender of everyone, or else, they will drop the missiles and everyone will perish with them.
The now healthy JLE watches Doctor Diehard’s address on television and vow to take their revenge. Nathaniel says their first fight against them was a total failure and they need to be more organized the next time they confront them, the Earth depends on it. Blue Jay, who gave up his drinking after he found a new sense in life feels much better now. He retells the time he fought the Extremists and introduces them to the JLE, pointing out potential weaknesses. There is Tracer and Gorgon, the muscles. They have superhuman strength, but Gorgon is rather slow. Tracer can be quick on his feet. He can also take any animals’ shape, but he thinks this is useless against them. They have already determined Crimson Fox’s pheromones are useless against them, but they can be defeated quite easily. They aren’t the biggest threat. Lord Havok, who takes the form of a robot, as superhuman qualities and is really resistant to blunt forces, so something more creative will be required to defeat him. He can create force fields and project high amount of energy, so they should beware. Doctor Diehard is the mastermind behind the Extremists. He won’t go as far as saying that he’s useless in a fight, but he can generate and manipulate magnetic fields, so they should beware, although much of his powers must be used to maintain the missiles in the stratosphere. Their biggest foe is Dreamslayer, a mysterious being nearly unlimited powers. He commands strong magical powers and he can fly. He has telepathic powers and he can teleport and as Metamorpho find out, he can work with the molecular field, so Captain Atom should beware. They should try to isolate him, as he doesn’t really know how to defeat him. Following their speech at the UN, the Extremists reportedly teleported in Israel, so the JLE will head there to confront the Extremists. Captain Atom says this is why he doesn’t mess around often, he deals with serious manners and he must remain professional. He gives a motivational speech to the group and they leave for Israel.
Gorgon and Tracer are fighting each other to stay in shape while Lord Havok, Dreamslayer and Doctor Diehard are analyzing whether they have enough weapons to annihilate the Earth’s population. The JLE sneaked on them and Metamorpho transforms himself into a copper shell and he wraps himself around Doctor Diehard, disabling his powers. Power Girl and Captain Atom notices that the missiles are falling down on Earth. Captain Atom uses his powers to break up Metamorpho’s cocoon. The Extremists are alerted. Doctor Diehard is frustrated by the JLE’s constant attacks and he orders Dreamslayer to send them away. He opens a portal and he sucks them all into it.
Captain Atom is the first one to open his eyes and he believes to be in New York City, only that it is more quiet, devoid of any life and ravaged by a nuclear holocaust. He says it feels good to be in New York City again and he’s surprised by Rocket Red, saying that he swore to never set foot in New York, but here he is. Metamorpho joins them and he asks what happened and Captain Atom says they lack experience to defeat the Extremists. Crimson Fox gets their attention, Power Girl isn’t feeling well. They notice there isn’t a yellow sun wherever they are and Power Girl is devoid of much of her powers. The men discuss what they should do, but they can’t come up with a solution. Crimson Fox asks them if they will ever stop thinking out loud and talking and do something instead. Metamorpho looses his cool and he tells her that she isn’t the most useful member of JLE. Captain Atom steps in and looses his cool too, saying it’s exactly what the Extremists want. Blue Jay gets their attention and points out they aren’t in New York, but on his home world of Angor.
They don’t have much time to think and debate because Captain Atom sees a missile coming. They are talk over one and another and end up doing nothing. The missile explodes in a musical tune and creates an advertisement for Wacky World. They ask Blue Jay what this is and he simply tells them to not go there. They debate once again and they conclude that someone must have sent that missile, so they head for Wacky World, with Blue Jay’s disapproval.
The follow the directions to Wacky World and discover it to be an amusement park with bright lights and thematic rides. As opposed to the rest of the city, the park remains unaffected by the nuclear holocaust. When they set foot in the park, Blue Jay shrinks himself and discreetly hides in Rocket Red’s armor. A parade starts and there are multiple floats representing the Extremists and one for every Champions of Angor (Blue Jay and Silver Sorceress’ former team). Crimson Fox recognizes Silver Sorceress as the woman Catherine has at the JLE headquarters and they see her, alive and well, but tied her float. A gas is released and even if the JLE tries to flee, the gas knocks them out.
Blue Jay was able to hide long enough to not get knocked out by the gas and he takes tiny steps to let Silver Sorceress free. He jumps on machines and floats and he makes his way to her. He increases in size and he breaks her free. It alerts the robots running the theme park and they try to kill them. It awakens the JLE and they defend themselves against the deadly robots. They are overwhelmed by the task and Captain Atom blasts a hole in the ground and they jump in it. Metamorpho covers the exit and feels uncomfortable, but they tell him to suck it up while they think about a plan. They ask Silver Sorceress who she is and she says she used to work with Blue Jay and she was captured by Dreamslayer and sent here. They ask her what does this park represent and she says it was made to honor Mitch Wacky, a terrifying being, kept alive in a cryochamber at the end of the parade. She says she’s been here long enough to know how to beat the androids, but they need to work as a team. Power Girl is out of the equation and so is Crimson Fox. Metamorpho and Captain Atom must work with Blue Jay to reach that button. She will think of a way to leave once they are done. Captain Atom and Blue Jay enter a ball made by Metamorpho and its design match their environment perfectly, so they go perfectly undetected. Captain Atom throws Blue Jay at a button and he presses on it. The robots begin to explode and Metamorpho shields them. They get back into the pit and Silver Sorceress opened a portal back to Earth. They enter it. Once all the robots are dead, the cryochamber opens and Mitch Wacky (Steve Buscemi) is let out. He looks around in despair, his world is in shambles.
They find themselves in the JLE headquarters next to a baffled Catherine. She has no idea where they came from and Silver Sorceress is now alive and well. They ask her what the latest known location of the Extremists and she says they have been spotted in Washington DC to negotiate with the White House. Silver Sorceress opens a portal to Washington DC and out comes the JLE.
They look around for the Extremists and they challenge them to a fight in front of the Washington Monument, on Captain Atom’s home turf. The Extremists arrive for the final showdown. Power Girl carries Crimson Fox in the air to spread her pheromones, but they are ineffective against all of them. She drops her with force on Tracer and scratch him with her claws. Rocket Red circles the Extremists at a rapid pace, confusing them and getting their attention. Metamorpho wraps Dreamslayer in a cocoon and tries to resist to its attack. Blue Jay and Captain Atom team up to defeat Gorgon who falls on its knees thanks to Nathaniel brute force. Metamorpho is forced to break his hold on Dreamslayer and focuses on Doctor Diehard next. He makes various shapes in order to make lose his focus and it allows Rocket Red to blast him from behind. As his powers weaken, the missiles begin to fall in the sky. Captain Atom teams up with Crimson Fox to beat Tracer. Dreamslayer feels something is about to happen he begins to look around for Silver Sorceress, but he can’t find her. Lord Havok proves to be difficult to beat than anticipated. He quickly gets rid of Crimson Fox, and she uses her pheromones to get Captain Atom and all the males to focus their attention at defending her. They quickly team up to defeat him by using Metamorpho in the shape of a bullet and Captain Atom’s force. They wonder where Power Girl is and they finally see her when the ground starts to shake. She lifted the Washington Monument from the ground and, joined by Rocket Red, Metamorpho and Captain Atom, she launches it at Doctor Diehard and Dreamslayer. They dodge the attack and Blue Jay decides to get to his supersize and serve as puppet for the others to use. They make him use the Washington monument as a hammer, breaking it in two. He now has two weapons and he hits both Doctor Diehard and Dreamslayer with it. The missiles are falling from the sky at a dangerous rate.
Silver Sorceress, who was discreet in the fight, uses all her powers to open a portal on the ground where the Washington Monument used to be. They push the Extremists in the portal. Dreamslayer tries to resist, but in his final showdown with Captain Atom, he loses and he goes into the portal. All the missiles are falling out of the sky and Silver Sorceress screams at the top of her lungs, using her powers to drag them all into the portal. After everything is done, Silver Sorceress falls on the ground, unconscious. Blue Jay rushes to her aid, she’s dead. Captain Atom stands tall with a depleted Washington in the background, the JLE won their battle and saved the world.
Post Credit Scene : The Extremists appear on Angor with their missiles. Doctor Diehard is able to gain control of them before they fall on the surface. They walk around in Wacky World until they come face to face with Mitch Wacky. Upon seeing him, they all drop on their knees and bow their heads, except Dreamslayer who remains on his feet. Wacky takes a tool out of his suit and he uses it to deactivate Doctor Diehard, Lord Havok, Tracer and Gorgon. He tells Dreamslayer he has failed and he’s disappointed in him.
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