Barry Allen (Ezra Miller) uses his super speed to change the past, but his attempt to save his family creates a world without superheroes, forcing him to race for his life to save the future.
Racing – …at the Speed of Light….
How The Flash obtained his powers was not ideal – having a batch of different lab chemicals directly tossed towards you & into your own body by a lightning bolt is bound to have either 1 of 2 things happen to you: death – or becoming a Superhero as Barry Allen became The Flash! Barry was never “the MOST popular kid in school …and was hardly noticed by anyone until he became Flash, but “racing” to help anyone that he saw that needed any type of assistance is who Barry WAS; therefore, those chemicals exploding and entering his body only magnetified the Gift that was already inside of him. That’s how I see it from my perspective and that’s pretty special just like his mother told him he IS – special.
Barry’s Past …Controls His Present
The one thing that Barry could not let go of and thought about day and night was his mother’s very mysterious death and how the cops pinned it on his father because when Barry arrived at the scene, his father was holding his mother in his arms with the bloody knife, the murder weapon in his hands! What would you think if you were Barry @ that young and very impressionable age and were as close to your father as you were your mother? Would you stand by your father and proclaim his innocence? Bruce Wayne tried to explain to Barry that our past is what defines us, gives us strength; defines us – and shapes us into who we are and he should NOT go and try to “change” that one event in the past because he would be creating change and conflict in other worlds that he’d have no comprehension of how to rectify – or to understand.
Knowledge is Power. How TRUE!
If Barry needed assistance in repairing what he had done in not listening to Bruce in the first place in his world; in the PRESENT – he would not be looking for; in the PAST – Aquaman, Wonder Woman, and Superman. The only other Justice League Member he could locate was that of Batman and he was quite ….different to say the least when he and his younger self found him! If anyone knows the Multiverse and has trillions upon trillions of experience, knowledge, power, and experience it is Bruce Wayne in ANY Universe! Barry in 2013, which is his younger version self is much more vibrant and child-like while the Current Barry behaves the same way, but he has toned it down a bit. You can see that when the two of them are having a disagreement or when PRESENT Barry is trying to “parent or school” PAST Barry. In actuality, some things BOTH Barry was telling each other were spot on so – in the real world, knowledge does NOT have to come when you get older; it can arrive when you are younger; very young. You’re never too young to tell someone how you feel or how someone is making you feel if you feel it’s making you feel uncomfortable in any sort of way. Tell them – tell them in a Flash!
“The Flash” Conclusions
The Flash was a very entertaining film and was considered to be one of this Summer’s biggest Blockbuster films and I can concur that I was NOT disappointed at all. I rather enjoyed it and of course, there is an ending credit scene. ALL DC Films have them as well as Marvel films. Get over it, yes, I mentioned Marvel in a DC movie review. LOL! I’m not hardcore over it like that and some people/comic book fans are. The Flash displayed us to how we cannot change our past and also how we cannot run away from it either. We have to accept it, deal with it, and move on, but of course, NEVER FORGET. But, do not allow the pain & anguish that we feel to consume us so much that we want to stop living …stop living life! NO! NO! NO! Our parents would not want that for us if they died and that is a fact of life that we will all die one day and that is why we should ALL cherish the lives that we have RIGHT NOW and live it up to the FULLEST! Be like The Flash and just go fast and soar ’til you can’t soar anymore!!!
Great review! I’m on the fence with this one. Hubby might wanna see! You know me by now, not a comic fan. I loved The Batman: Dark Knight version, and the NEWEST Batman. I honestly don’t know what The Guardians of the Galaxy fall under. DC or Marvel? But I loved those! 🤣
I can see how stuff from the past can consume people, but you have to think, the reason you don’t know whatever it is, is for a reason as well. How ever from those events most of the time, future choices in life are made because of those events. Would people make the same choices if they knew what happened or not? More than likely some choice because of an event shaped their life to where it is now, and finding out the truth would have had a totally different trajectory in their life. Some times when the story ends, you just have to let it end.
How The Flash obtained his powers was not ideal – having a batch of different lab chemicals directly tossed towards you & into your own body by a lightning bolt is bound to have either 1 of 2 things happen to you: death – or becoming a Superhero as Barry Allen became The Flash! Barry was never “the MOST popular kid in school …and was hardly noticed by anyone until he became Flash, but “racing” to help anyone that he saw that needed any type of assistance is who Barry WAS; therefore, those chemicals exploding and entering his body only magnetified the Gift that was already inside of him. That’s how I see it from my perspective and that’s pretty special just like his mother told him he IS – special.
The one thing that Barry could not let go of and thought about day and night was his mother’s very mysterious death and how the cops pinned it on his father because when Barry arrived at the scene, his father was holding his mother in his arms with the bloody knife, the murder weapon in his hands! What would you think if you were Barry @ that young and very impressionable age and were as close to your father as you were your mother? Would you stand by your father and proclaim his innocence? Bruce Wayne tried to explain to Barry that our past is what defines us, gives us strength; defines us – and shapes us into who we are and he should NOT go and try to “change” that one event in the past because he would be creating change and conflict in other worlds that he’d have no comprehension of how to rectify – or to understand.
If Barry needed assistance in repairing what he had done in not listening to Bruce in the first place in his world; in the PRESENT – he would not be looking for; in the PAST – Aquaman, Wonder Woman, and Superman. The only other Justice League Member he could locate was that of Batman and he was quite ….different to say the least when he and his younger self found him! If anyone knows the Multiverse and has trillions upon trillions of experience, knowledge, power, and experience it is Bruce Wayne in ANY Universe! Barry in 2013, which is his younger version self is much more vibrant and child-like while the Current Barry behaves the same way, but he has toned it down a bit. You can see that when the two of them are having a disagreement or when PRESENT Barry is trying to “parent or school” PAST Barry. In actuality, some things BOTH Barry was telling each other were spot on so – in the real world, knowledge does NOT have to come when you get older; it can arrive when you are younger; very young. You’re never too young to tell someone how you feel or how someone is making you feel if you feel it’s making you feel uncomfortable in any sort of way. Tell them – tell them in a Flash!
The Flash was a very entertaining film and was considered to be one of this Summer’s biggest Blockbuster films and I can concur that I was NOT disappointed at all. I rather enjoyed it and of course, there is an ending credit scene. ALL DC Films have them as well as Marvel films. Get over it, yes, I mentioned Marvel in a DC movie review. LOL! I’m not hardcore over it like that and some people/comic book fans are. The Flash displayed us to how we cannot change our past and also how we cannot run away from it either. We have to accept it, deal with it, and move on, but of course, NEVER FORGET. But, do not allow the pain & anguish that we feel to consume us so much that we want to stop living …stop living life! NO! NO! NO! Our parents would not want that for us if they died and that is a fact of life that we will all die one day and that is why we should ALL cherish the lives that we have RIGHT NOW and live it up to the FULLEST! Be like The Flash and just go fast and soar ’til you can’t soar anymore!!!
It was cool! I was just annoyed by the young Berry Allen. I like the cross over with Michael Keaton. He stole the show.
Heck yeah he did – actually the alternate older man stole the show first! Why don’t you reply on here more often for me?
Great review! I’m on the fence with this one. Hubby might wanna see! You know me by now, not a comic fan. I loved The Batman: Dark Knight version, and the NEWEST Batman. I honestly don’t know what The Guardians of the Galaxy fall under. DC or Marvel? But I loved those! 🤣
Guardians of the Galaxy fall under the same category as YOU – Marvel (elous) 🙂
I will
Time will tell and I will see because I get notified! 🙂
I can see how stuff from the past can consume people, but you have to think, the reason you don’t know whatever it is, is for a reason as well. How ever from those events most of the time, future choices in life are made because of those events. Would people make the same choices if they knew what happened or not? More than likely some choice because of an event shaped their life to where it is now, and finding out the truth would have had a totally different trajectory in their life. Some times when the story ends, you just have to let it end.
Good review!
Very true! And that is exactly what I said so I can’t comment any further than that!