Review of Blue Beetle (2023) by Imthenoob — 23 Aug 2023

The DCEU should end with this film. The cast tries, which is why I didn't give it a 0, but it is so generic and cliche that it was hard to get into. Literally, everything bad that can happen happens to this family - Jobs are lost, they're losing their house due to financial problems, the house is eventually lost in a fire, and a family member dies. We are beaten over the head with so many of these cliches in order to get us to rally around these characters and it just doesn't work. The villains are equally bland with the secondary villain having all of maybe 10 lines of dialogue throughout the film. This movie doesn't just get progressively worse. It nosedives in quality in the second half.

There were multiple moments throughout the film that nearly caused me to walk out during the second half and I actually did end up walking out with roughly 15 minutes left in the film. Once the Grandmother appeared to save the day in the tunnels, I got up and left. Don't bother with this one. It's as bad as Shazam 2.