MOVIE REVIEW: theFlash starts strong and staggers to the credits.
comics, Barry’s escapades are pitched at an effective emotional caliber. Turning back time in order to prevent the death of his mom when he was a child, he strands himself in an alternate timeline where he has to work with a somehow even more irksome version of himself.
Controversies notwithstanding, Miller is quite convincing in the extended dual role, essentially having to rely on acting against themselves for the majority of the run time, as the two work to set things straight within space-time. It’s not long before the familiar face of General Zod arrives to wreak havoc in this universe and our two Barrys have to look for backup, which comes in the form of none other than Michael Keaton’s version of Batman and a newly introduced Supergirl .
It’s a surprise to Barry but not to the audience, as Keaton’s suited-up mug has been plastered all over the marketing for the film: The multiverse sells, and Warner Bros. needs people to know that DC has one. Both characters end up almost as nonentities, carrying no real consequential weight to their appearances in a story so overstuffed with ideas and plot threads that it doesn’t have the time to do much with these alternate heroes other than mindlessly throw them into action sequences.
Everything inevitably leads to a third-act hodgepodge of CGI fighting and explosions, in a climax that begins as distinctly underwhelming before moving into something new that recontextualizes themes about the futile nature of changing the past and interrogates the role of a hero like the Flash in a way that’s shockingly emotionally cogent.
Then, it throws all that away for a grotesque, digitally rendered parade of IP branding. I can’t remember the last time I turned on a movie so quickly. It goes from something I wish these movies could be more often to everything I hate about the modern state of them within the span of 10 seconds. It’s a pitiful disservice to itself, turning a relatively fun, if rocky, movie into nothing but another product designed as a carousel where you can point at things and people you recognize.
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