The first live-action Latino superhero movie from DC Studios is its best film of the last decade.
DC’s biggest competition over the last ten years hasn’t been Kevin Feige and the Avengers. Its biggest foe has been its past — a storied era of glory that produced some of the finest superhero cinema of all time. When Richard Donner’s “Superman” and Tim Burton’s “Batman” set the pace, it can be hard to keep up. And after
expected nothing short of perfection when DC got back into the fold in 2013 with Zack Snyder’s “Man of Steel.” Perfection is not what followed. In the time DC has tried to match Marvel’s success, it produced some good movies and exactly one masterpiece, Patty Jenkins and Gal Gadot’s first “Wonder Woman” movie in 2017.“Blue Beetle” is the second masterpiece — the first of what Warner Bros. hopes will be many in the James Gunn era of the new DCU.
I did not expect “Blue Beetle” to punch me in the face the way it did. I walked into a private screening with no one else in the theater other than my daughter, prepared to view a film I was convinced didn’t matter in DC’s grand scheme of things. I thought “Blue Beetle” was a dead movie walking that would join “Batgirl” in the Warner Bros.
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