The Flash

Taking a queue from Captain America: the Civil War (As far as fan service is concern) and, of course adapting the comic book Flashpoint, the Flash’s attempts to save his mother put another scientific spin on time travel that I would love to hear Neil Degrass Tyson’s take on, but for the most part, it was just the McGuffin device that allows My Batman! Micheal Keaton to appear in the DC Extended Universe that consists of Batffleck.

I thought Batffleck was amazing, just not in this movie. Everything about his Batman was lame in this flick.

Is it possible that was done to show love for Micheal Keaton’s Batman? Possible, but he did not need it. Yes, I’m biased cause I was in the theater in 89 when this dude first said, “I’m Batman,” and as if Keaton needed to prove that was true, he does it here. That 89 movie is 34 years old, and there were things they could not do (and Tim Burton may not have wanted to do), and the strange thing about This Flash movie (other than a large amount of time I’m going to spend on Batman) was we got to see Keaton do things we never thought we would get to see him do as Batman. Like fighting, they did not do much of that in either Batman or Batman Returns, but he got to smash some heads In the Flash. He got to toss that Batarang like we want Batman to toss it, and those Batwing scenes…It’s like a genie gave Micheal Jordon a wish to be 34 again for the 2023-2025 NBA season. Keaton has nothing to prove, but seeing him back in the game was so dope.

In all honesty, since the trailers dropped, Batman89 was the only thing I wanted to see, but The Flash was a good movie overall. I loved how they visually showed us how Flash uses his powers even if the special effects were not that good. A lot of bells and whistles that made it feel like I was reading a comic book. I kept feeling it could have been better, but they were dealing with many stories that did come together nicely.

And to be honest with you, I did not care for Ezra Miller. Nothing to do with his latest controversy; I just realized that in Justice League, his version of the Flash was taken in a small dose, but this is his movie, so I get the biggest serving of the Flash, and technically they doubled that serving, and that was a little too much. It took time for him to grow on me, too much time. Once again, I’m biased because he is not my Flash (that Flash is on TV).

It’s a lot to go through, but it’s one of the best comic book-driven movies I’ve seen.