The Flash Review: A New Beginning That Didn’t Live Up to Expectations

Most of the movie Flash, Andres Muschietti, Barry Allen (Ezra Miller in a dual role) questions his existence. And you have cause for concern. In the timeline he belongs to, he is part of a group of superheroes with considerable power that he cannot compete with. In addition, his alternate dimension version – younger and discovering his own destiny – does not understand the responsibility that lies on his shoulders.

So together they embark on a journey of growth. Along the way, they will face an alien invasion, some versions Batmanmany others from Superman and furious Kara Zor El (Sasha Calle). All the while, the time travel that the script maintains, changes its rules as it sees fit, and eventually becomes as irrelevant as the film’s purpose.

Is Flash trespassing into uncharted territory DC multiverse? Perhaps an official farewell to several characters in snyderverse purge survivors What if it’s just entertainment that aims to please the largest possible audience?

Flash should answer many questions

There is no clear answer as to what it is. Flash, although at the first stage the film makes the right decisions to tell about the main thing. from the call Alfred (Jeremy Irons) Barry to come Gotham from dealing with an incident that no other hero can handle, to exploring his awkward personality.

FlashReleased from the burden of comic relief, he is much more than the weakest part of an extraordinary team. Gradually, his story endows him with a series of little dark layers that enrich his character. In particular, when the plot makes it clear that only a very small part of what is being shown was shown on the screen. Barry can do. Besides, about everything that his power really means.

Something that is evident when rescuing newborns from the hospital wing shows that his abilities go beyond very fast speed. Flash takes his time to emphasize the feeling of the inevitability of the event, and even more so after it Bruce Wayne (Ben Affleck) I warn you that time is a fluid substance.

Actually most of Flash is directly related to this perception. The infinite time frame of reality is as fragile as it is unpredictable. Every change, no matter how small, is irreversible and leads to strange places. Therefore, the opportunity to find meaning in a major event involves humility.

In Search of Rewriting History

But Barry doesn’t want to quit. Especially now that he knows he can travel through time. It is also likely that his father Henry (Ron Livingston) never get out of jail. The central circumstance again becomes an incident from the hero’s childhood. But now we are not talking about a handful of disparate information. Flash Explains how Henry left the family home for the nearest supermarket just at the moment when Nora (Maribel Verdu) was killed. This was followed by the formulation of an indirect accusation without clear evidence, which has not yet been fully resolved.

So, Bruce Wayne, who became Barry’s mentor, is trying to get a second review of the case. So he finds CCTV footage of a man resembling Henry wandering around the premises at the moment his wife was killed. The problem is that he never looks at the camera. So it can’t be evidence that turns Barry’s suffering into frustration.

One of the script’s exploits Flash is to insist that this flawed hero has understandable motives. What allows Ezra Miller to give wide development of his unique psychology. First version Barry he is full of worries and judgments about what he can do and about his motives. Knowing he can never match the strength Supermanintelligence Batman or strength AquamanWhy not build your own story? That’s when the film finds its best and most inspirational cut.

Transition between past and future in Flash

Ignoring Bruce Wayne’s warnings, Barry ends up time-traveling, preventing his mother’s murder, and returning to the future. Only, unsurprisingly, he finds nothing familiar. With a more than obvious reference to Robert Zemeckis’ concept of time travel, he arrives at a timeline similar to his own. But in it he is eighteen years old, and the accident that gives him strength has not yet occurred. In other words, butterfly Effect – which is cited as an excuse for what happened – significantly changed the character’s present.

It was then that Ezra Miller showed his best performance in the film. It is this Barry doppelgänger—one younger and more comical than the older one, and more nervy—that gives the script its funniest moments. The search for the meaning of what is happening – and ways to reverse it – begins with a fast journey through an unknown setting. Now yes, the one in which everything Flash can suggest highlighted in bold.

From obvious movie references suggesting major changes to major transformations of events. Flash advances in its first section for a possible world that Barry walk in surprise The first hour and a half of the film is the most spectacular, best constructed and most thought out. Moreover, the more one realizes the weight multiverse. However, gradually the tone shifts towards something more complex and darker. The characters create new plot tension and turn the film into something more gritty.

He is Batman no matter what.

Trying to force myself in youth to gain strength, Barry from the central timeline loses its. What triggers part of the events of the second half Flash. In addition, the event causes him to seek Bruce Wayne to get your help. Only to find it’s a different man now. A grumpy, bearded pensioner who wants nothing to do with heroism.

Michael Keaton interprets the strange version Batman, which strikes with the depth that can be achieved in several scenes. quicker bird man Alejandro Rodriguez Inarritu than Tim Burton’s Batman is a grumpy and tough figure. Nevertheless, the director manages to make the whole atmosphere surrounding him a tribute to the saga of the nineties. Which becomes clearer when he attempts to become a shadowy figure, only coming out of the shadows on special occasions.

It is the appearance of a variant of Batman that actually awakens—and explores—the idea of ​​a multiverse. But Flash he wants to be flashy, not hard, so the concept is quickly diluted. The shortcomings of the film are revealed in comparison with a brilliant and well-executed approximation Spider-Man: Crossing the Multiverse. Alternate realities and timelines blur until they become meaningless or formless ramifications, and the feature film ends up contradicting its own rules and essence.

Visitors from Krypton

But, undoubtedly, the most striking element Flash this is a rethinking of the figure Kara Zor El. Superman’s cousin replaces him chronologically. Moreover, his story is as difficult as it is touching. It is also best developed in a film that often causes conflicts that it cannot resolve. Bruised, wounded and traumatized, the last daughter kryptonian it is a dark and ambiguous presence. Of course, only she can stop the invasion of Zod (Michael Shannon), who is shown as an intersecting figure in dozens of narrative lines.

Perhaps the biggest problem Flash be just like that. That there’s too much going on at once, and the plot can’t focus on and delve into its core themes. Christina Hodson’s screenplay weaves between various pop culture references that underpin a convoluted sequence of events. In fact, more than once the film seems to fall apart into unpredictable and illogical situations.

At the last stage, it becomes obvious that the invasion Zod and the endless series of cameos are just anecdotal incidents. Even more disturbing is the visual section. When Flash comes to an inevitable central confrontation – bigger and more insane than any other from DC – the digital part shows its weaknesses. The movements of the characters become erratic, not very believable, and sometimes so artificial that they affect the execution of the plot. Undoubtedly, also to its general quality.

Flashan attempt that stays halfway

Flash It’s a good movie that explores its central figures and gives proper development to its main characters. However, when he wants to be a show that covers all the topics offered – invasions, time travel, the multiverse – he falls into mediocrity.

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As pure entertainment, the feature film more than fulfills its mission. As a transitional element between two phases of the DC franchise, it unfortunately fails. This leaves a wide range of issues to be addressed for future productions that seek to reshape the publisher’s cinematic universe.