History of the DC Extended Universe
In what amounts to the greatest irony in the history of the DC Extended Universe, one of the most troubled movies in the franchise has turned out to be one of its best. Nearly a decade after the film was first announced (with a 2018 release date) as part of the DCEU, and following a parade of directors and screenwriters, a pandemic, the slow-motion crash and burn of the DC cinematic universe as we know it, and the personal crash and burn of the film’s star, The Flash is finally arriving onscreen… And it’s a blast!
Directed by Andy Muschietti (It: Chapter One and Two) from a script by Christina Hodson (Bumblebee, Birds of Prey), The Flash is everything that much of the last 10 years of DC-based movies have not been: It’s fast-paced, character-driven, and, most importantly, in love with the comics and the iconic superheroes themselves. It has the crazy energy and sense of awe that is found in the colorful pages of those books, and even when it loses its way in a jumble of CG effects and confused narrative turns toward the end, it still manages to stick the landing thanks to a surprising amount of emotional and nostalgic power.
Much of that rests on the shoulders of its star Ezra Miller, who delivers not one but two performances as different versions of Barry Allen, the insecure, virginal young geek whose grudging yet also relatively enthusiastic acceptance of his life as a speedy superhero does not supersede his love for his murdered mom Nora (a touching Maribel Verdù) and his wrongly incarcerated dad Henry (Ron Livingston).
Let’s get straight to the red-and-yellow-suited elephant in the room: Miller, whose personal and legal troubles have been well-documented and are genuinely disturbing (the actor is said to have been in treatment for “complex mental health issues” since last August), is fantastic in the movie. It’s almost too much to wrap one’s head around how good they are, while knowing that the actor has been in a years-long meltdown with significant personal and possibly criminal ramifications.
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