A couple of weekends ago I saw three action movies. The first was “Spiderman: Across the Spider-Verse”. This was a sequel to the animated Spiderman from a few years ago. This time Spidey gets mixed up with a villain named The Blob and all kinds of Spidermen show up. It’s a bit confusing, but has a lot of action. The ending is not really an ending but a “To be continued”. Overall, not bad, but not as good as the original.
The second film I saw was “The Flash”. As a kid I was a DC comic fan. While the Flash wasn’t one of my favorites, I still liked him. Unlike a lot of the DC films produced by Warner Brothers, this one was not totally dark. Ezra Miller plays Barry Allen who becomes the Flash. He plays with time travel in order to save his mother’s life and fouls up everything, including making a clone of himself. He enlists other super heroes including Superman, Batman, Aquaman and Wonder Woman. What I really liked was that they had multiple actors who had played the heroes. The movie starts out with Ben Affleck as Bruce Wayne/Batman and then he becomes Michael Keaton. There is even a George Clooney cameo. Henry Cavill and flashbacks of Christopher Reeves show Superman. That was fun. I found it enjoyable and I liked Miller a lot. Not too found of him in real life, but he played the character well.
The third film was the latest Transformers movie, “Transformers: Rise of the Beasts”. This one is somewhat of an origin story that goes into the present. Some of the transformers came to earth to hide out from a sinister being intent on destroying worlds. Let’s face it, you don’t watch these movies for the dialogue or plot. There are a whole new crew of earth people, like Anthony Ramos, and many of the standard transformers including Bumble Bee and Optimus Prime. Lots of action, visual effects and battle scenes. Not a bad continuation to the franchise.
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