What Flash it would have been a problematic film, we definitely didn’t see it in June. A film designed for a certain context, studied by certain names, which ended up being revised several times, cancelled, reshot, modified and adjusted to fit production logic. There was even a point when Warner seriously considered throwing the whole thing away as he was done with it. Bat Girl, when the main character Ezra Miller found himself at the center of large-scale media scandals. But in the end, Flash This is exactly the send-off the DC Extended Universe deserves.. Both for the better and for the worse.
Thanks to your arrival Flash on home video (the folks at Warner Bros. Italia were kind enough to provide us with the Blu-Ray version for this review), it was a good excuse to return to the time-travel/universe mash-up under the direction of Andy Muschietti, who would be the dealer this time around. Not so much because the film turns out to be somewhat banal in terms of direction, but because its creation, originally conceived as a film adaptation of the monumental Hot spot paradox DC Comics, it was like that manipulated in post-production that something ultimately went wrong is demonstrated by the three filmed endings. Not all, fortunately, but the impression that some kind of confusion has settled in the DC film division is more than just a feeling.
Flying over the famous problem with computer graphicswhich becomes more and more relevant as the film approaches the third act, and then improbably falls apart in the final battle against Zod with the environment on Spy Kids 3D (we are near the floating head Thor: Love and Thunder(and in fact even Barry seems to give him credit in this particular situation), Muschietti and screenwriter Christina Hodson ultimately manage to create a story that has little to no potential Flash point but what completes the circlethat from DCEU, which, thank God, is over. Maybe.
Zack Snyder’s followers don’t mind it, but the shared cinematic universe project, as David S. Goyer has admitted in recent days, has collapsed after several films that oscillated between good and sufficient and then let themselves go in very short order. time of complete confusion – and we’re not placing all the blame on Snyder, let’s be clear. James Gunn and Peter Safran were tasked by Warner to restore confidence in the project (hereinafter referred to as DCU), and it was Flash this could be the winning key to making the public understand that things have changed now and will be better..
Did everything go like this? Not really. Given that the new DCU is born with some doubts (the film Authorityfor example, the already unknown size of the house), Flash originally began as a film trilogy that would end the Snyderverse by rebooting everything between the actors and the stories. An idea that Marvel Studios might follow. Avengers: Secret Wars, but neatly reworked by Muschietti and Gunn to shape something else. Something that, at least on a narrative level, works (except for the last paradox that just doesn’t add up, but which we can overlook thanks to the magic of science that still can’t explain everything), reproducing at least at least partially, this extraordinary nostalgic operation, which Spider-Man: No Way Home made in 2021.
While we do note that not all of the production issues were resolved, once you reach the end of the viewing experience you will be left with a generally satisfying, albeit somewhat regrettable, experience. Near great Ezra Millerwhich features two similar but different versions of Barry, and Michael Keaton is in great shape (even if a little is wasted, but not because of its shortcomings), there is also an underlying superficiality that seems to lead nowhere. Sasha Calle’s Supergirl never impresses, the extras are annoying, and poor Ben Affleck, the lead (finally!) in a good-looking action movie as Batman at the start of the film, is greeted too early. Not to mention Zod (Michael Shannon), who at times seems to have simply been cut out by an artificial intelligence and stuck on film.
AND regretsupon closer inspection, these are the same ones we’ve always complained about in the DC Extended Universe.: a grandiose project on paper, an epic story full of great ideas, but faced with harsh truths. A truth that consists of different creative decisions, too many minds behind the production, constant changes and various attempts to follow trends or, in any case, find an amazing film just by chance. Flash, in fact, is a demonstration of this. Here’s hoping this is the latest example of panic-stricken Warner in a futile attempt to rebuild the MCU’s decade-long history in a couple of films, ruining the image of its greatest superheroes with a few muddled ideas.
Like a movie in itself Flash he does what he must, without shame and without praise. It doesn’t disappoint, but it doesn’t surprise either, and it might even be impossible. The very fact of having to act as a finishing point cinematic universe that never workedexcept for very rare moments, is the reason for most of the film’s weaknesses.
A film in which Amazing woman (Gal Gadot) in her sixth appearance in the role: he also has to remind the audience that his lasso forces a person to tell the truth. The character, after so many years, cannot be brought to this point. It’s like Iron Man had to remember Avengers: Endgame that his armor allows him to fly. Or as if Naruto had to repeat that chakra is for action.
Dear Flash, dear Ezra Miller, you tried.. Let’s look at this movie, all things considered, happy endand we hope for the future.