Luke Siler

I don’t review often, but this film deserves it. If the real world legal troubles of the lead actor bothers you too much, I respect your conscience. That’s a very personal decision, and I’m not here to teach ethics. For me, the accusations and narrative are too unclear for me to paint a decisive picture and I’ll allow a border between who an actor is, and who they pretend to be. As for the film, it has a lot going for it. Ezra Miller, who I never particularly liked as the Flash, does turn in a good performance. I forgot there was only one of them. If one could forget, it was a superhero film, it could almost have been marketed as a successor to Back to the Future, The Parent Trap, and the Butterfly Effect. It leans into its cinematic heritage so hard that it’s almost indifferent to the cinematic universe it’s ending and beginning. This is probably the greatest strength of the movie. It throws up its hands along with the audience and says, “these interconnected cinematic universes are cool and all but will inevitably turn into a continuity obsessed bowl of spaghetti.” Then it slurps it up and laughs.