The Flash was Peak

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After an entire year of petty crime from the star, Ezra Miller, it was amazing that Warner Brothers was willing to still release the film. Actually, because of all the controversies around Miller, I guess they just had a lot of faith in The Flash. It would genuinely have to be peak to forgive Miller’s behavior. I mean, they canceled a Batgirl film for supposedly no reason so this HAS to be PEAK. Besides Aquaman, it was going to be the only superhero thing to make them money this year.

This is possible as the Flash is a really cool character just because of his powers. Ezra also seems to be a decent drama actor for depressed characters so maybe he really sells it here. I already liked him in Justice League where he was just bouncing off a not so moody Batman. Actually, let me briefly talk about the other DCEU projects I had a feeling to watch.

Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice, I completely avoided because nobody seemed to like it at all and I didn’t need to watch something that wasn’t peak.

Wonder Woman (literally the first I saw of any of this mess), was actually pretty good even though I kind of dislike the vibe of WWI being mixed in with the world building of DC and Amazons ect.

Justice League, actually a nice emotion booster for me. It was just cool to watch the usually brooding Batman helplessly unite the team against an enemy they should lose all hope against. And he was the weakest one! That was like if Hawkeye tried to recruit the team in Avengers. I liked Cyborg’s inclusion, Flash was a good relief character, they kept that Israeli actress badass, and Jason Mamoa was great despite his low screentime. The funniest scene for me, as a powerscaler, is when the team had just woken up Superman and they are trying to subdue him. Cyborg and Aquaman are holding him down and then the Flash uses Speed Force to try to flank the Kryptonian. Then Kal-El turns his gaze, LOCKS EYES WITH BARRY, SMIRKS MALOVELNTLY, and then knocks him clean on his ass. Shit had me screaming, that was peak cinema.

Shazam!, did not watch by choice but it was a pretty basic origin film. At least it didn’t feel cringe when it was unfunny. One thing I didn’t like (although I know it happens in the comics) is that all the kids got the Shazam powers and they all have the same ones. Like no specialties between them. But even then I wouldn’t have liked it just as a personal choice.

Justice League: Snyder Cut, this one did NOT need to be 4 hours long. I couldn’t even imagine how it would achieve that with the exact same plotline but halfway through I realized every fight scene was extended by at least 2 minutes because of slow-mo. Almost every action had slow-mo but according to IGN, just over 24 minutes of the film was slow-mo. I guess. It was good otherwise as it had extra scenes to give Flash, Cyborg, and villain more screen time to truly introduce them. In another timeline, since it was already edited into parts, I imagine it would work better as a miniseries.

Peacemaker, which I watched most recently after watching the Snyder Cut. This was peak television delivered only by James Gunn. The theme song, plot twist (albeit obvious), arc for Peacemaker, and the acting was all really great. John Cena was also super good here and I could really resonate with him by the end. What’s funny about his somewhat innovative man-child character is watching it interact with common tropes like badass tsundere and haunting villain illusion (his dad in the last episode) to basically show a new light of such tired tropes. I have nothing bad to say about it and everything was good.

So now its Flash time and reviews were coming out from the critics. They sucked this movie’s dick like nothing I have never seen before. It was just from people retweeting stuff so I don’t know if it was all real but I heard stuff like “one of the greatest superhero films of the year”, “refreshing for the superhero genre”, and “Best DC film in a while”. I don’t know, they were saying crazy shit to the point that I was convinced that this was gonna be good.

Then some regular fans started posting leaks and spoilers of the film. With more footage out in general, it would also lead to people mocking the CGI and other visual features. I didn’t care, I stared to build a great anti-spoiler wall so that I didn’t hear anything bad or good about the movie. The Flash microwaving some baby? Must be a fan edit.

Now, was I gonna watch it in theaters? Man, lowkey, there were tooooo many movies coming out this year. Of course, the world as a whole was postponed due to practically 2 years of COVID and now the movie industry would finally be caught up seemingly in 2023. I say this year because there’s so many “must-see” blockbusters when before COVID, there was maybe like ten in a year. That would be three Marvel films, whatever Pixar has, maybe a Dreamworks film, one or two high prestige director (like Tarantino or Scorsese) films, one big Horror film to trump the others, one or two big romances, a teenager film, a cult classic, a nostalgia/anniversary piece and then the rest that more niche audiences would watch. I feel like this year (in terms of American film) have like double or triple for everything. And its not like we have the money for it since we also took our breaks. In the first half of this year, I was going to the theater like every three weeks which is a lot. Now I could’ve waited for the films to be available for streaming (legal or illegal) but I like the theater experience. Now I know I like it maybe twice a year. I know other people principally just waited to stream stuff. Unfortunately, streams won’t actually make the most accurate amount of money and that’s bad for the actors and writers. So 2023, the year where the film industry catches up, presents an interesting situation where there is a lot to watch every fucking weekend–at a higher priced theater that you have to fricken drive to or at a much lower priced stream service if you just wait a month–and people have to decide where their wallets should take them or even just be choosey on where to use it. The spice is flowing, just not so well. This could be an added cause to the Writers Guild of America’s strike along with the reason I did not pay for the Flash.

By the way, I think it’s funny some people think you are directly handing 10 dollars to a potentially bad artist when you buy their stuff. If it’s someone like Ezra Miller, no you are not contributing to anything except to the whole complex coporation that would’ve recieved money from you in various ways.

Anyways, I instead found the film on the freest source, 123movies. It was HD in like three weeks or maybe four. That was surprising to me, it usually takes two or three months. It had good captions and the quality was never bad. Crazy.

So the the film opens on a clock and then flashes to Barry Allen stepping into a coffee shop with possibly some actor cameoing here. I don’t know him but he gets an awful amount of lines. Quickly though, Alfred calls him to help Batman in Gotham City. This scene very quickly answers up how the Justice League is impacting the world and each other since we haven’t seen any of them like this since like 2017. That’s actually kinda impressive. I remember countless times that Marvel fans complained that a solo film didn’t include the other Avengers after the team had been established. Like for Iron Man 3 for example although I disagreed with the complaints. The events in something like IM3 usually happen so quickly, I’d be surprised if Captain or Thor could come to Stark’s aid by the climax. Especially since he wasn’t trying to contact anyone.

Then Barry flashes into his costume and runs out. He does his starter pose, which is interesting to me as a Track runner, and the title is about to fade in. And then it gets interrupted by fangirls screaming. And I didn’t even find that cringe! This is a very quick bit and then Flash runs off in a nice title sequence, edited very smoothly, and I think to myself, “oh this just might bang”.

“Baby Shower” is the official name of a scene in which I think wasn’t all that much to fuss about. I remember after the film released, after I seen it, someone tweeted it without context and acted so shocked but like, it’s built up in the film. These robbers basically blow up a hospital as they make their get away and the unstable structure starts to collapse. At the top of the tower is the nursery and due to the tower breaking, the babies are flung out. Flash spots time and uses his Speed Force to very carefully collect each one, even stuffing one in a microwave, and then saves a nurse and a dog before bringing them to the ground. Very funnily, the nurse starts screaming when Flash brings the baby out of the microwave and I was elated. I like this power establishing scene. Somewhat subtle, the two main things about Speed Force is that Flash needs calories to use it and he can’t just move regulars humans around or they might vomit/die. That second thing is established verbally later in the film but that’s why he moved so carefully and only moved in animate objects.

The other scene interspliced here is Batman chasing the robbers through the city and on a highway. This is one of the few daytime Batman scenes I have ever seen and it was decent. I mean, characters like Batman and Spider-Man are so goated that I feel like it’s hard to even mess them up. Maybe the only thing I would’ve changed is not having Wonder Women save him at the last second but ehh. Everyone does show up in the film and this is where she could’ve. She does get to add a slightly funny bit with the Lasso of Truth on Bruce and Barry but that’s it.

Then Barry go gets his breakfast from the guy from before who genuinely took an entire Batman scene to make one little meal. Damn. Barry goes to work and we meet his bratty coworkers who I guess aren’t supposed to be his friends although I don’t know any Flash comic. We also meet his lightskin crush from the Justice League film and I finally recognized her. She was in Austin &Ally!

Uh, I like that Barry and Iris are both kind of awkward with each other and they seem to be aware of it so they don’t let it stop their potential friendship. That’s actually just good advice if you’re in a romantic situation. Rather than doing the usually campy awkward couple thing they do in movies. She later even inspires him to time travel and wasn’t weirded out by his little rant. It makes me believe she could really like him as much as we’ve been told he likes her.

But before that, the movie also establishes the incentive for Barry, to get his dad out of further jail time from his hearing tomorrow. his dad basically has no hope but reminds Barry of the song his mom used to sing and we softly transition to a childhood flashback. The family is all happy, there’s warm lightning. The dad goes out to buy a simple tomato can but comes back to a dead wife. Barry wishes he could just go back and then figures that if he did, he could make sure his mom grabs the tomatoes so that she didn’t have to be alone when she dies. He asks Bruce for advice on this and Bruce is very eerie about it, warning of the dangers, but he does not literally say not to.

So Barry heads into the past and disguises himself in the grocery store. He places the tomato can in the cart and I think “well he’s followed the rules of least interaction that Bruce talked about so this is done, right”? Then he gets spooked by what I assumed was some kind of timelord (what i thoguht at the time). The Timelord bounces him to a point where he should be 18 and in college. He meet’s his mom and dad in this timeline where they are all still happy. Then this timeline’s Barry comes home. JL Barry takes him to his bedroom and is surprised to how different but familiar it is. Freshman Barry is shocked at all the powers and stuff but I’m super proud they didn’t make him stubborn in confusion. Sometimes characters in supernatural stuff will be visited by something supernatural and just get stuck in that, never simply accepting the situation. I hate that so much.

Anyways, JL Barry decides he needs to give Freshman Barry his powers so the kid needs to get hit by lighting while getting doused with a bunch of chemicals to get the Speed Force. You know, I always have wondered if the Flash was just born like that (cause I never looked up his origin) and yeah…I guess that’s what they would’ve done in the 20th century. When the lightning strikes (I hate the characters for this) it passes through JL Barry into Freshman Barry and so the powers are rather transferred into the younger one. The older one loses his powers and since this lucky lightning strike might not happen again, this might be worrisome. This leads to basically having the young one test his powers as if this was an origin film.

But then the movie gives us something else to do. In a quick scene, the film reminds JL Barry when exactly this is taking place, during the invasion of Zod during Man of Steel. Again, I never watched this movie but I realized this at the same time as Barry as it would be easier if the writers were trying to call back to the first film of this franchise rather than come up with a different thing. That news report leads to JL Barry trying to find the old team in this timeline but they can only locate a Michael Keaton Batman and a Supergirl stuck in a Russian base known as Kara-El. When Kara-El temporarily leaves the team, JL Barry decides to risk getting his powers back but the first lightning strike fails. But Kara-El left the team thinking she needs to just meet Zod to quelle his visitation. Then she learns it is a brutal invasion and returns to the team, lifts Barry in the air, and allows the storm to electrocute him enough to grant his powers. The four then head into battle against Zod until the final climax of the film.

But before we get to that point, let’s add an addendum to the Multiverse thing I talked about in my last article. In that article, I wasn’t really trying to talk about basic time travel so I only discussed branch theory about how a timeline can split due to time travel. This supposedly doesn’t happen in this film but rather there is a loop from time travel. Or at least, the loop is what is literally going on even though Keaton explains a different thing.

Keaton explains that the multiverse or otherwise separate series of events are like a bowl of spaghetti. Some are different, some run parallel, and some are bound to intersect at some point. And then he states Barry’s travel was actually moving from one string of spaghetti to another where his mom did live, he’s 18, and there’s still Zod. Because things like Zod’s invasion and Barry Allen receiving powers are bound to happen. The Freshman variant doesn’t even need that much training as he easily melds into his powerset (this is outstanding because it never mentions Barry does any sports, does he do that in comics?).

But not all things are bound to happen. There’s a funny bit in the middle where JL Barry learns about a few differences between this timeline and his own. Firstly it would seem that Marty McFly was played by Eric Stoltz while Michael J Fox was the lead in Footloose where as Kevin Bacon starred in Top Gun. So I wonder if Tom Cruise made it in Pulp Fiction in this timeline? Also Batman is much older despite traveling into the past, he’s basically retired. The Supergirl is much younger than Clark Kent was and some people, like Arthur Curry, were never born. So this doesn’t fit in with branch theory at all and I guess the writers are trying to invent their own Spaghetti Theory. Sure.

Besides the jokes about the confused timeline, the rest of the comedy in the film is actually really good. I didn’t laugh every time but I don’t remember cringing. The other timeline also has a certain slang that takes a good long minute for JL Barry to recognize but it doesn’t distract the viewer either. The rest of the dialogue is very smooth, sells only the awkward characters as awkward while everyone else in unaffected, and again nothing felt too campy from memory. The expositions aren’t vague+confusing either.

The emotional dialogue is kept heavy and practically never clashes with any jokes. All of the drama scenes derive from the two Barrys that Ezra Miller both play here. And they really sells both roles, so its really funny considering their mental breakdown last year. Well, they did the filming for most stuff in 2021 (for both the Flash and Secrets of Dumbledore) so they had lots of free time in 2022 to act a bit silly. But reading some interviews about Miller, they seem to really appreciate the Flash character. They even always wear the Flash ring. Miller has their own life struggles but nothing in 2022 is written into the Flash since filming was already done. In real life, Miller’s parents would’ve recently divorced, they are still trying to figure out their polyamorous molecule, and this would be a real starring role for them when most times before they were a side character.

So all of those emotions are brought here where we get two emotionally opposed Barry’s. One is the happy go luck, young, bold but nervous, and immature Barry. This one gets to be the comic relief but he’s not so silly that he can’t act serious in certain moments. He’s also mostly a receiver in the relations between the two. He’s getting all this information about what he’s supposed to be in the future and he doesn’t ever really pry about it. He gets to see/experience the coolness of his powers or the Batcave at an earlier age than the other Barry does so he potentially acts more hyper about it. He also gets to be immature because he didn’t have to raise himself. He had his parents to rely on his whole life and is now big chilling in high school. He even later catches on that he may be annoying Barry but he otherwise wants to help the most he can.

Meanwhile, Justice League Barry is much more jaded by comparison. I realized this about an hour in, how different the two really are. Ezra has to go into it thinking about how this Barry has to had raise himself for half his life. Dead mom and imprisoned father. This Barry has had to act optimistic when maybe he shouldn’t. This Barry has had to deal with the horrors of the Zod invasion and stopping Gotham crime when Batman needs help. He doesn’t even have any friends, is always late to work (which can cause some anxiety), and nobody really treats him nicely while he has to patiently wait for their stupidity. Also, since he’s in the past, he kind of knows the odds of things. If they don’t have Supergirl, the planet is basically caput. If he can’t get his powers back, he’ll never be able to leave this string. Then he realizes his time travel might’ve broken the universe he knows so he gets regretful. Then he realizes, very late in the film, that to fix everything, he really would have to let his mom die. That’s sad and despite already playing as this character, Miller would need to add in all this depression to make this one work ever better. Having two hyper active Flashes would’ve SUCKED.

Mostly because of the ‘fulcrum’ scene of this film. It’s been building that the older Flash finds the younger one stupid or annoying and perhaps spoiled. But finally, the younger one truly causes him to break. At this point, the younger Barry doesn’t know his mom is kind of supposed to be dead. So he says, :yeesh, sorry mom” as a joke when JL Barry tries to discipline him. Being reminded of mom like this causes Barry to scream to the younger one alluding to how spoiled he is and then switching to how shitty of a person he is in his freshman year. The younger Barry defends himself perfectly saying how helpful he is despite knowing nothing. The older defectively points out that “you use monkey as a dartboard” as the monkey was a special toy mom bought for them since she always calls him monkey. Wannabe Freiza. For older Barry, the monkey would be the last memory of her but for younger Barry, it’s just another monkey toy in a long string of toys. JL Barry realizes he can’t continue this argument as if something happened to mom and maybe remembers that this is what he wanted in the first place. To create a timeline where his mom could always call him monkey to the point he’d treat a toy as a dartboard.

Hits heavy, for once, to get what would’ve been a mirror universe talk to another with different circumstances. I read somewhere that Ezra helped write this scene and they definitely did good acting in it. I can’t imagine the rest of the movie working without it so it really is the fulcrum in that way. Oh and it’s timed really well, coming in with little over an hour left in the film. After this, the younger one acts more serious. Right before the big battle, he overhears about how his mom died and is thusly more focused on solving the big picture problem for the end.

As for Michael Keaton’s Batman, he is definitely still a highlight in the film. I fear without the scene I just talked about, he would’ve been the one to carry the film. But Keaton’s just being as good as Keaton is. I never watched his own Batman movies although I get the gist of their cheesy vibe due to parodies like in Kick Ass and or even Fairly OddParents (although they are parodying the Adam West Batman). I guess they did good with a callback line “let’s get nuts”, design of the Batcave, and his role in the movie as an old mentor. Even Ben Affleck’s Batman was a mentor to the Flash so its nice for him to have a familiar source of wisdom. Keaton also gets a funny intro scene where he just babyshakes JL Barry and gets decent fight scenes but otherwise he doesn’t actually have crazy screentime.

Out of the main characters, Kara-El probably has the least amount of screen time but I don’t really want more for her….? You know? Like if Zod wasn’t attacking that day, she would go unmentioned. It’s nice that the Soviets or Russians (simply don’t remember) were chosen to find the Kryptonian child to perhaps show the difference in an American raised or Russian raised Superman figure. Cause you know those are the only two countries in the 20th century. But then, she’s not even raised by farmers, she’s held in darkness by the military so Kara leaves, she’s much more vengeful. She even states, “why save you humans who treated me like that when I am a Kryptonian” before flying off after Zod. Instinctively she was going to join Zod’s side as she thought he was just searching for herself and her cousin Kal-El. But when she sees that Zod is just decimating humans, she might’ve remembered Zod is not the nicest guy. She goes back to the Batcave and helps Flash get reborn and relates that Kryptonians are supposed to be peaceful. During the final battle, she meets with Zod and he tells her (maybe too early for his efforts) about how he killed Kal-El for blood that didn’t work on his terraforming machine and actually he needs her blood. So they fight. This is a decent storyline for Kara-El I guess, if the theme of Superman is that he is some weapon to be used by others. Like Lex Luthor in Batman v Superman or by the whole team in Justice League. Yeah he’s a person but he’s super duper strong so those around him will always need him to be just that. Even Flash’s recruitment of Kara here is just because she could fight Zod who also just wants her for her blood. I wonder if this theme is intentional because they try to make it very desperate that Flash would need her. I mean, it is true that he needs her, its only reasonable to fight a Kryptonian with another Kyptonian but every time Superman is called for, its for power. I wonder what James Gunn will do with the character.

The CGI is most objectively the worst part of the film. I don’t know how long it usually takes or how much the team was abused, labor wise, but they like a year to do this and its not even passing my bar. I don’t ever really care visuals 99% of the time, but I could tell it was either unfinished or bad in some scenes. One thing that did look cool was the “Chronobowl” which is what Flash uses to time travel. The director responded to bad cgi complaints only defending these Chronobowl moments as they are supposed to be what Barry sees at that speed, which is bad cgi. But I don’t care about that. I just liked that they wanted to visualize time a circular and to be honest, it was like Barry was running around the track ring in a stadium. A good Level Selector design. The other thing I liked were the costumes, they all looked sleek and minimalist as to say they didn’t have extra lines like Marvel costumes. In the end, I actually really like that Freshman Barry uses a Batsuit to make his own Flash suit which has a different silhouette so you don’t get confused between the two in battle. Of course, he also has blue sparks where the older one has gold. The location they painted for the final battle is this flat rock which really sucks. I…where do we evevn have that on planet Earth? Like not a hill or any grass. I guess its cause he started terraforming or whatever but I’d rather the fight be in Metropolis again. Just some terrain detail like jeez what the hell.

Uh the music in the film is really good. I think they had just a general playlist, not any specific genre or whatever. They could’ve gone for like purely fast paced songs but whatever. Other sound effects were cool, I think him in Speed Force always sounded cool. Sparks too. I was watching it with headphones but the dialogue and music volume were never at odds. Stuff was clearly said unless you’re too slow to understand Ezra talking at Flash speed.

Before we move to the final stretch, JL Barry has a nightmare about the time monster guy that knocked him earlier reminding you that Zod is not the main villain. He doesn’t even fucking know Barry or ever interacts with the character in the future. This was really good timing for this as I thought the final scene was gonna be a quick defeat for Zod and then a happy ending before Barry returns home. But there was still that creepy thing lurking in the corner of his eye that could haunt him. Brilliantly paced film. Secondly, Freshman has developed a small crush on Kara for some reason. I say small despite him claiming they will have kids someday, I just wish there was another scene for this.

I will say there is one bad choice they made which is more of a personal nitpick. So the team flies into the final battle against Zod and his army. Supergirl goes to fight Zod while Batman flies around for air support (it doesn’t happen). Freshman Flash basically has on the job training on how to Speed punch and shit. Then after completing his first attack (like some game tutorial) the two are beside each other and then race off. The song used for their fight against the infantrymen is “Salute Your Solution” the Raconteurs. It’s not a bad song, in fact it is very much a banger. I know also that Ezra has their own taste in music as they have a “genre queer” band called the Sons of an Illustrious Father although this could also be a director choice. I just completely disagree with it, it should’ve been “the Distance” by Cake. Maybe that’s cliche but the lyrics speak to the plot of this movie. “She all alone in her time of need, because he’s racing and pacing and plotting the course” literally describes the next scene.

So after taking out some forces. Batman finds himself shot out of the air with no way of ejecting so he just kamikazes. And despite Kara knocking down Zod, he is able to sneak strike her and then draws her blood. The two Flashes are completely distraught but the Freshman realizes they can just time travel. JLB is a bit against this but runs with him through the Chronobowl. They jump back to the beginning of the scene where I would’ve started playing “the Distance” against. Then they prevent the deaths for Supergirl and Batman only for a bit of time. Supergirl still gets one shotted by a knife. Batman has a very cool scene blowing up one dude but he’s too tired and dies. He assures JLB that he doesn’t need to bring him back because “you already did”. FB is still hopeful for a solution with a new savestate. He is literally trying to savescum real life. Also, when he fights off one of the Kyrptonians, he accidently gets a shard of armor stuck in his arm along with a scar across his face. Now I start to realize something. From the Chronobowl, JLB watches the other Flash reload and reload his savefile like he had access to Killer Queen: Bites the Dust. Here, I would’ve had the chorus just repeat it self over and over although I would’ve also filmed more scenes of Freshman failing. He only failed like three more times before JLB stops him to tell him that their deaths are always meant to happen. And in fact, the death of mom is always meant to happen even in the original timeline. But they should be grateful to have her for their first years of life anyway. But Freshman wants to try one last time, running for the woman in need. Here I would’ve played the ending of the song where they repeat “all alone” in between vocalizations. But here too, the Dark Barry (the scary monster from before) comes out to torture JLB. Freshman returns to the bowl and the three meet each other. Around them, we can see that other universes are about to collide with this one for funsies.

Those are other universes are peered in to and they have the cameos of other Supermen or Batman from filmmaking of the last century. Fans were horrified with the use of CGI over a dead actor, Christopher Reeve, as the man didn’t even like the Superman role that much. I don’t know why they didn’t just use a clip from Reeve’s movie. Why are the other universes also peering into the Chronobowl? What are they gonna do about it?

Anyways, Dark Flash introduces himself as the same younger Barry who is currently trying to save Kara. He has the same scar and shrapnel covering his body. He looks fucking sick. But this is where I might get confused.

So I assume the timeline is this. JLB went back, saved his mom, and made it back to the Chronobowl. At the same time, Freshman Flash would basically continue savescuming Kara vs Zod, getting more damage and shrapnel, but can’t seem to find a solution. Well he can go back to whenever he wants, right? So maybe he reverses the movie a couple minutes further to try again, and eventually he goes all of the way back to 18 yo, when he jumps JLB to knock him back to recreate him. The possible idea here is that with two Freshman Barrys (or technically an infinite source of Freshman Barrys), they would find an solution to Kara dying. But we don’t get past two. Freshman jumps into JLB’s way when Dark Barry decides to attack. Freshman dies thus killing Dark Barry in the future since they are from the same exact timeline. I think!

Then JLB goes back to his mom, takes the spaghettis out of her cart and (because he’s disguised) decides to kind of talk to her. He acts like some random kid visiting town but the woman is still able to console him. This was very touching and I know that Ezra felt for this scene since they prefer their mom in real life. “I love you. I love you more. I loved you first,” he says in Speed Force to the woman that always said this to him. Now at least he got to say good bye and can return home. Back in the future, JLB is able to save his father during the court hearing so the man is freed. His crush congratulates him and later he meets a Batman acted by George Clooney. Barry is visibly disturbed by this despite George acting like nothing is wrong. That was funny for me. It leads to the post credit scene where Barry is talking to Arthur Curry about how Batman is technically different but the man is too drunk to listen. Honestly, good use of different actors to break the fourth wall.

So that’s the film. A fucking banger. My only problems are the CGI and the choice to not us “the Distance” but literally, other than that? I could watch this every 5 years or something which is a pretty big compliment. I do have a personal problem with Ezra Miller, since they are such an airhead weirdo, but that’s really besides the film. Also since I didn’t pay for it, my economy has also separated the art from the artist. :). A number rating? 9/10. Recommendation? Yeah. If you aren’t tired by multiverse or time travel, its a decent film for the Flash character.

Epilogue: Reverse Flash is not mentioned in the film but the only thing I know about Flash comics is that he is the man who kills his mom via time travel. So if that was still the case in this film (as we never see her killer) it’s funny the three Flashes are arguing about how to save mom when that one fucker might still kill her for the hell of it.