The DC film starring The Rock is a rote entry in the superhero canon.
who are expected to actually make the whole thing come together — to the point where the boundaries of the genre are largely coterminous with that which the studio will allow. In the last couple of years, it’s become harder and harder to avoid seeing the walls of the box as every subsequent movie and TV show gives a sense of diminishing returns.might not be that the movie is too interested in being a darker take on superheroes — it’s that it’s not willing to go further.
The movie does have something sorely lacking in much of its peers: A willingness, however slight, to engage with the world around it. It would be absurd to expect a serious message about liberation from a movie with a $200 million budget. Still, it’s genuinely surprising how muchmanages to do. The movie is punctuated with intense, serious conversations about the resistance tactics being deployed by the people of Khandaq, and how they can best be free from the boot of Intergang.
She might be a resistance fighter somehow capable of finding and stealing magical artifacts, but Adrianna doesn’t want her son to learn how to be violent, and she at leastfor a peaceful resolution to Adam’s conflict with the Justice Society. On the other hand, she has no problem with an open war against her oppressors. She repeatedly tells the Justice Society to mind its own business and get out of her country.
This is in line with some of the more successful recent Marvel properties, which similarly find superheroes at least attempting to punch their way out of the box they’ve been in for the past decade. The
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