Hello friends. I've decided to "go with the flow" and start talking about the few "new" movies I've managed to see and give my most honest opinion of them. In this case, it is the turn of a DC Comics movie that has been very popular this year and that has reached everyone's lips due to various circumstances that we will talk about in this post/review. That's right, we're talking about "The Flash", the DC's "promise of a new cinematic multiverse" that would bring quite a few cameos and characters to the franchise, but which in the end ended up being a total failure for Warner and for DC Comics itself. 

With a production and investment of more than 200 million dollars, this film, which has been postponed many times, making DC fans wait since 2019 to see this "promise" which, according to the directors and producers themselves, said that it would "revolutionize cinema and give way to the future universe and vision of the franchise", It ended up raising just over 200 million worldwide. This, evidently, was a total failure for Warner Brothers, worth more than 200 million dollars. And so "The Flash" went from "the promise" to the franchise's biggest failure to date. 

The reception and criticism that the film received was, mostly, towards its horrible CGI and visual effects. There was so much criticism towards these important details of the film, which completely ruined the experience of many fans, that it ended up being canceled on social networks. Among other things, what gave the "icing on the cake" to critics was the disappointing ending of the film, which caused the public's total rejection of the franchise. Apparently, DC series from ten years ago have more CGI and special effects than a 2023 film with more than $200 million in production. 

Below, I leave you one of the scenes with CGI and special effects that have been criticized the most in the film:

Honestly, I started watching this movie hoping to become more disappointed in the DC Comics franchise itself because of the terrible job they've done. But, despite it being effectively a total disappointment in what promised to be "the birth of a new era for the DC extended universe", I still had a bit of fun watching it. Although the humor and the acting of the characters were good, for the most part, the story also has its emotional touch which tries to touch the heart of the viewer in order to empathize a little with the situation that the protagonist is going through. 

But, despite being understood and comical, the large number of errors in the CGI and its special effects, in addition to its disappointing ending, was what ended up ruining my experience watching it. If in itself it was difficult to empathize with the protagonist, after everything that happened with the actor during all these years, They also brought us back to one of the best versions of Batman in film history, for what? For that he dies repeatedly at the end (Spoiler Alert). If I were one of the fans of Keaton's Batman, I would currently feel disappointed in the franchise for bringing back an old and precious memory and then ruining it with its quips and stupid script twists that do nothing to improve this horrible plot. 

DC Comics' failed attempt to imitate Marvel Studios' success with the theme of cinematic multiverses cost it, this time, a loss of hundreds of millions of dollars from a movie that for years they promised that it would change the world of superhero cinema and that only brought shame and regrets. Anyway, it is evident that I do not recommend watching this movie at all, for your own good as a fan of DC and its incredible stories told in its comics. Apparently the "Flashpoint" that we so hoped to see on the big screen ended up being quite a humiliation for the franchise itself. 

All the best. 

By: Nattosheru.