Born of the crazy spirit of Adi Shankar, the series available on Netflix tells how a team of superheroes investigates suicide from one of their own while fighting a threat against the world « free ».
Shankar, more than a name, a concept by itself
Just see his picture on his imdb card to identify the character... Excellent producer The Wolf Territory and Dredd, Adi Shankar is an undisputed fan of everything pop culture can bring: Comics, video game, cinema.
It's not for nothing that he is at the initiative of fan-films like Dirty Laundry by Phil Joanou (Angels of the Night, Hot blood for cold blood murder), with Thomas Jane resuming his role as the Punisher after his counter-performance in the 2004 film. Venom: Truth in Journalism by Joe Lynch (Everly, Mayhem), which explodes in 17 minutes the three hours of the two film strons, and an excellent Power Rangers put in a box by Joseph Kahn (Torque, the road flames), with Katee Sackhoff (Battlestar Galactica) and James Van Der Beek (a long way from the harmless TV show Dawson).
Injustice League
After the success of Castlevania, its latest production to be seen urgently, Netflix had left him carte blanche for his next creation and the man was determined to please himself!
Mixing all that kiffe, the series is an underground patchwork or Watchmen would meet Kung Fury. Armed with references up to plain plagiarism, it is difficult not to see in the series the Justice League the Mortal Kombat in a story taken from the masterpiece of Alan Moore, all bathing in a grindhouse universe. A dirty kid comes out of all this, with his antiheroes in a crash mode, his president of the United States not very finaud (and finally quite close to a former head of state) and his violence not to put in all hands.
« We're better than you, we have bigger guns than you, our armed forces are far more bald than your armed forces. »
The realization astonished by its multiple conceptions: one goes lightly from live action to cartoon, passing through image-by-image animation in moulding paste, rotoscopy (used by Ralph Bakshi in his Lord of the Rings or Tygra, ice and fire) and retro video game.
But if the mixture deludes the time of the first episode, one gets bored quite quickly, and one must force oneself to reach the end of the 7 episodes which are nevertheless short durations (less than 30 minutes each). The fault of a snoring scenario that takes itself too seriously, of the longer dialogues that the actors find difficult to recite, and of the latter whose charisma is closer to the Z series (which is in a sale bin) than the series The Boys.
And if it's fun to see some famous heads like Jane « Doctor Quinn » Seymour or Denise « Sex Crimes » Richards in cameros, the rest of the casting will not remain in the annals; The unpleasant impression of seeing an Adi Shankar playing with all his figurines, without any consistency, dominates all along.
Gloubi-boulga indigestible, The Guardians of Justice Would have deserved a less messy treatment despite the goodwill of its creator. We'll still wait for his last mischief: Captain Laserhawk: A Blood Dragon Remix, anime from the universe of Far Cry and directed by the French studio Bobbypills (Crisis Jung, Vermin).
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