‘The Flash’ Review: Ezra Miller Is Doubly Great In Wildly Fun Comic Book Movie As OG Batman Michael Keaton Makes Brilliant Return
deadline.comThe hype is real. DC’s The Flash may not be the greatest comic book movie ever made, but it comes damn close. Easily the best in the genre since Spider-Man: No Way Home, this fresh, invigorating and hugely entertaining summer treat is as good as it gets when it comes to cinematic takes on superheroes.
Let’s give credit to director Andy Muschietti and screenwriter Christina Hodson for making what was becoming a worn-out movie genre a brand-new life with a smart, funny, thrilling, emotional and altogether swell take on a character that has been around 80-plus years but never got the showcase he deserves until now.
And bringing him vividly alive in a rich and dazzling dual performance in which he brilliantly plays opposite himself is Ezra Miller, and simply put, better casting you could not imagine.
Whatever the well-publicized previous troubles the actor had in his own life simply do not matter here, he is the real deal and a superhero superstar is born.
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