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THE FLASH – Benjamin Wallfisch
Original Review by Jonathan Broxton
WARNING: THIS REVIEW CONTAINS PLOT SPOILERS. IF YOU HAVE NOT YET SEEN THE FILM, YOU MIGHT WANT TO CONSIDER WAITING UNTIL AFTER YOU HAVE DONE SO TO READ IT.
There’s been a lot of talk lately about superhero fatigue, and how the movie industry has been eating itself alive with too many entries in the seemingly endless expanded universes from both Marvel and DC Comics. Director Andy Muschietti’s The Flash has been the recipient of a significant amount of criticism in this regard; it’s the 13th film in the DC series that was kickstarted in 2013 by Man of Steel, and the second of four DC entries slated for 2023, with the others being Shazam: Fury of the Gods, and the upcoming pair Blue Beetle and Aquaman and the Lost Kingdom. The film also came under fire for the fact that it’s star Ezra Miller, despite being inundated with legal issues stemming from his apparent real-life mental health problems, has been given the full support and backing of Warner Brothers, while the almost completed Batgirl film was unceremoniously scrapped back in August 2022. Whatever the case is; The Flash had problems from the get-go, and in the days since it’s release it has been a critical failure and a comparative flop with audiences. Read more…
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