The Flash movie covers many of the Flashpoint key moments but also changed many events. It is an ok adaptation of the Flashpoint but it could had been a lot better. My incial thoughts were that this movie would be a mess. Most DC films were failing and this movie was being delayed a lot. Then the problems with Ezra Miller and the constant reshoots and chnage of scripts must have affected the movie. First the CGI was a mess, supposedly it was justified with Flash breaking time. But no, the CGI was a disaster all the time. I feel they concentrated their CGI usage for the on screen time with the double Ezra Flash appearing together most of the movie.
That was probably too much. After everything Ezra did outside the film he should have been changed. But we see why that didn't happened since the whole movie would had needed to reshoot everything since he appeared in most of the scenes.
Next, adding Michael Keaton was amazing and seeing him in alot of the scenes make it worth it. We saw him a lot in action and also as the strategist. He was given an important role like he deserved. But I feel a Thomas Wayne Batman would had also been great. Seeing the father of Bruce turn into Batman would have been great.
Now the "Dark Flash". I don't know much about the Dark Flash except he was an alternate version of Wally West. I don't understand why they didn't just make it Reverse Flash or Zoom. Hey, even Red Death Flash since he already had the Batman costume. They really missed an opportunity there. The look of the Dark Flash character looked like the constant spike rocks they used in most of the DCEU. Don't know why they believed it would be awesome to keep using it. For Kryptonian rock maybe it made sense since it was constant on HenryCavill appearances but looked weird on Dark Flash. Most villains appeared with some spike rock look.
Movimg on to Superman, the way they changed skinny Superman with Supergirl was great. Sasha Calle did great as Supergirl and it feel she had enough scenes important scenes. At times it felt she had more scenes but it seem a bit rushed like they cut a lot more. At least they kept the key moments. Some scenes look like they were building for a dramatic moment but the scenes ended abruptly. Seems like they had many reshoots or deleted scenes. Now at the end we saw many "cameos" but as AI. They went crazy with the AI and even do we saw many classic version of the Superheroes I still wonder why the CW versions didn't get included, again. CW Flash added Ezra in their show yet they couldn't add Grant Gustin to the film? I know that after Arrow and probably half of Flash the CW ruin the shows. From amazing driven Superheroe shows they turn them to lazy written soap operas. The scripts were just a disappointment. But the actors like Stephen Amell, Grant Gustin and Melissa Benoist deserve a chance for a film appearance. This was a perfect opportunity to add Grant and Melissa and again they wasted it. Just at the very least they should had appeared at the end. Hopefully they can still be called in the new DC film timeline. It is weird why they are not called to appear but they were called for the bonus interviews. There is a section were they interview all the actress that played Supergirl in the different projects. Overall it was an ok movie. They created so much hype as being better than Endgame, Spider-Man No Way Home etc but it wasn't. Again, NoWayHome was an Amazing Fan Service but lacked the proper elements for an amazing movie. But The Flash 2023 lacked a lot of huge moments and really didn't affected much. The Flashpoint event is a huge deal in the DC comics but here it was just ok. Even as a fan service movie it lacked a lot of more content. So yes at the end it did disappoint for exaggerating a movie that we shouldn't had expected much from. Again as a movie it was ok and Keaton as Batman was probably the best of the whole movie. I would definitely recommend this movie but to watch it just once. I will rated 7.0, was going to go lower but it did had many accurate Flashpoint moments and few amazing fight scenes. Also couldn't go higher because they missed a huge opportunity to fully reset the DCEU or at least establish the new path DC would take.
Rating: 7.0
