In spite of this angst-fueled premise, director Andy Muschietti ( It and It: Chapter Two ) smartly infuses the film with a Looney Tunes sensibility, reintroducing Barry with one of the goofiest opening sequences in a superhero film to date, and using the time-travel premise to make The Flash a buddy comedy, pairing Barry with a younger, more obnoxious version of himself from the past. In a moment of anguish, Barry discovers that if he runs fast enough, he can surpass the speed of light and travel through time, observing history in a ring of space-time he calls “the chronobowl.” Ignoring a warning from Bruce Wayne/Batman (Ben Affleck) about the perils of altering history, Barry decides to time travel to prevent his mother’s murder and his father’s imprisonment. The plot kicks into gear when Barry learns that the last big potential break in his dad’s case will not exonerate him. The opening briefly reestablishes Barry Allen (Ezra Miller) as a part-time Justice League member and full-time forensics lab analyst on a personal journey to clear the name of his father, Henry (Ron Livingston), who’s been convicted of murdering Barry’s mother, Nora (Maribel Verdú). While it lacks the clarity or resonance of, say, Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse, Christina Hodson’s script keeps the story squarely focused on its protagonist’s emotional journey and treats the finer points of its metaphysical world-building as flavor, an excuse to do some extremely comic book things. This is even more astonishing given that it has one of the most convoluted plots in a recent stretch of superhero films that are absolutely lousy with multiversal exposition. To its credit, the movie’s two-and-a-half-hour run time moves at an impressive clip. Given all this, the worst thing a movie called The Flash could do is feel slow. The result is messy and strange: It’s a bright, breezy film that is overwhelmed by corporate hagiography, a pat on the back for a bunch of movies that never really worked out. In 2023, The Flash now serves as one of the final films in the Snyderverse, a eulogy for the Zack Snyder era of DC - but also, surprisingly, for all DC’s page-to-screen adaptations. Originally planned for a 2016 release, according to a 2013 DC movie plan that ultimately proved too ambitious, The Flash arrives a full decade later from a chastened DC that’s getting ready to restart its cinematic universe with James Gunn in charge. You can catch it on 3D, IMAX 3D, and China Giant Screens.For a movie about a guy who can move incomprehensibly fast, The Flash sure did arrive late. No doubt having Alibaba as a major investor has helped out a bit.īeyond sees Captain Kirk and the crew of the Enterprise marooned on a distant planet after the destruction of their spaceship where they encounter an alien warrior race. It’s pretty rare for a Hollywood film to be granted extra time in market like this. Go see!” read the post accompanied by a selfie of the comedian on the Great Wall. “Woohoo! Star Trek Beyond is on in theatres in China for another month. Simon Pegg, who served as co-writer of the script as well as reprising his role as chief engineer Montgomery “Scotty” Scott, posted a celebratory message to his Weibo on Wednesday. Now the blockbuster has until November 1 to increase its haul. Star Trek Beyond (星际迷航3:超越星辰) has already taken RMB 437 million (USD 65.4 million) at the Chinese box office since it opened on September 2. Good news for China-based Trekkies who haven’t had a chance to see the latest installment of the sci-fi franchise – you now have an extra month to see the film on the big screen.
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