John Kreed

Blue Beetle (2023) is a really good movie. Good movies deserve better success at the box office and it should be surpass any hate or negative perspective(s) audiences have towards DC media or positive views towards Marvel media. •The cast was really well picked. •The Background Music deserves praise for what it has achieved because its not just another heroic music, its music unique to the Blue Beetle. •The physically active protagonist may seem at first bland but it will connect in the grand scheme of things before the movie is finished. That was a narrative scheme that is not usually seen in superhero movies and it was refreshing to have that. •The lack of CGI used and the fact that they went with a physically created suit for Blue Beetle was a positive that deserves praise. It decreases budget costs and the VFX team has good room to work with what needs to be added. Green Lantern (2011) and The Flash (2023) failed to comprehend the misery caused by a CGI suit and it directly affected the movie's visual strength. •The comedic performances, writing and deliveries did get through more times than expected. •It does take until the final fight for the audiences to get a somewhat complete idea of what Blue Beetle's suit is capable of. Considering the nature of the writing in the movie and character it can be understood why it is so. It was to me an overall solid comic book movie. PLEASE WATCH GOOD MOVIES IN THEATRES/CINEMAS AS MUCH AS POSSIBLE. SUPPORT MOVIES. DO NOT LET HARD WORK GO TO WASTE BECAUSE OF PRE-CONCIEVED NOTIONS AND ONLINE MEDIA.

The movie is not as bad as it was made out to be by public reviews. It did have potential and most of the positives are based off of technical wins acquired by the team behind the movie. The music, camera work, locations, lights, basic story, story's focus they are all reminiscent of a well-budgeted movie and it is. Unfortunately the negative do cast a shadow over the positives and make it an 'Okay' to 'Alright' movie for the general audience. There are some scenes in the movie that make it look like TV commercial. An unfortunate aspect that took place before the movie had completed its filming was the demise of the actor Vivek, because of which the last two stretches of the movie probably was re-written and was also rushed. I watched the entire movie and I do not even know the name of Rahul Dev's character or what his role was in the script. The protagonist is a bold man of great resolve who though he would be able to pull it off as a successful lead actor, in which he does partially succeed but ultimately fails due to his odd movements, when he runs or walks fast for instance, it is as though is an AI in an android body. The camera work during action scenes deserve praise because it does look like the protagonist is himself performing the actions. The story at whole fails because the avid moviegoer can see the movie from a mile away and does have all the general big-budget masala movie checklist points. It is a one-time watchable movie, if anything you will remember the effort taken by a textile businessman to cut it as a lead actor in the Tamil movie industry.