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Review #5: Justice League: The Flashpoint Paradox (2013)
I'm not really a DC fan, I've only read some of their comics when I was younger, I was more into Marvel (specifically the X-Men comics). When it comes to DC, they can get it together and deliver a one hell of an animated film, unlike their recent live action movies. I loved some of their work such as The Dark Knight Returns Part 1, Under The Red Hood, Return Of The Joker...but they also produce some awful flicks such as the most recent Batman: The Killing Joke. But I've heard quite a lot about this one, that it's arguably their best out of their best....do I think the same, mhmmm....?
The film tells the story of The Flash a.k.a Barry Allen, who goes back in time to save his mother from being murdered, and with doing that he changes the future and turns it into a world that is hanging by a thread.
I liked this film a lot, but I don't know about calling it their best work ever, the animation is pretty decent, the action scenes are pretty good, I loved the story in general, and every character looked pretty cool, I w. Technically the film itself was flawless, but personally I didn't enjoy it as much as I wanted to. Maybe I'm just nit picking but I really wanted the film to go more in depth when it comes to how everything became what it is, for example why did Wonder Woman and Aquaman specifically became the bad guys ? How did they become lovers at one point ? Why was the reverse flash aware of the previous world and what it was ?...I pretty much wanted the backstory of the apocalyptic version of their world.
What I enjoyed the most is probably how dark the film was, there was a lot of violence and they definitely didn't shy away from showing it.
All in all, this is a fantastic animation, it's extremely entertaining and the story is intriguing therefore I'm gonna give The Flashpoint Paradox an A-
I'm not really a DC fan, I've only read some of their comics when I was younger, I was more into Marvel (specifically the X-Men comics). When it comes to DC, they can get it together and deliver a one hell of an animated film, unlike their recent live action movies. I loved some of their work such as The Dark Knight Returns Part 1, Under The Red Hood, Return Of The Joker...but they also produce some awful flicks such as the most recent Batman: The Killing Joke. But I've heard quite a lot about this one, that it's arguably their best out of their best....do I think the same, mhmmm....?
The film tells the story of The Flash a.k.a Barry Allen, who goes back in time to save his mother from being murdered, and with doing that he changes the future and turns it into a world that is hanging by a thread.
I liked this film a lot, but I don't know about calling it their best work ever, the animation is pretty decent, the action scenes are pretty good, I loved the story in general, and every character looked pretty cool, I w. Technically the film itself was flawless, but personally I didn't enjoy it as much as I wanted to. Maybe I'm just nit picking but I really wanted the film to go more in depth when it comes to how everything became what it is, for example why did Wonder Woman and Aquaman specifically became the bad guys ? How did they become lovers at one point ? Why was the reverse flash aware of the previous world and what it was ?...I pretty much wanted the backstory of the apocalyptic version of their world.
What I enjoyed the most is probably how dark the film was, there was a lot of violence and they definitely didn't shy away from showing it.
All in all, this is a fantastic animation, it's extremely entertaining and the story is intriguing therefore I'm gonna give The Flashpoint Paradox an A-