Plot Summary – Worlds collide when the Flash uses his superpowers to travel back in time to change the events of the past. However, when his attempt to save his family inadvertently alters the future, he becomes trapped in a reality in which General Zod has returned, threatening annihilation. With no other superheroes to turn to, the Flash looks to coax a very different Batman out of retirement and rescue an imprisoned Kryptonian — albeit not the one he’s looking for.

★★½

Watched 15 Jun 2023

The whole time when I was watching this movie I was wondering who the target audience is. When a movie has over thirty credited writers, six directors, and who knows how many other creatives working on it, it’s either a masterpiece like Spider-Verse or something completely overcooked and underdeveloped like this movie. It could not decide for a single second what it wanted to be and tried to do everything. It tried to be a Justice League movie, it tried to be an emotional drama, it tried to be a comedic superhero fun time like the Tom Holland Spider-Man movies. In the end, it kind of achieves everything but a lot of things don’t belong together which makes this movie a very thematically, visually, and tonally inconsistent movie. Having Ezra Miller headlining your movie was problematic enough but there was no need to make their character such a big incel loser who’s kind of unlikeable for the most part. It’s so sad that they messed this up because they were able to tell the same story in a much better way on a far smaller budget in The Flash TV show. The cameos were so lame and didn’t even have as much payoff as the ones in Multiverse of Madness. That being said, it was still entertaining on a base level. At two and a half hours long, it manages to keep you engaged for most of the runtime and the plot moves along surprisingly coherently for a movie with so many direction changes. Micheal Keaton definitely improves the movie just by being there and made a lot of the scenes a lot more bearable. There’s one character who felt so out of place and irrelevant, and I was really unhappy with how she was dealt with. Overall, I wouldn’t recommend seeing this in theatres, especially if you haven’t seen Spider-Verse yet. This has almost the same message and plot device but done a hundred times worse.