At first, the hero with red pants and a blue uniform, Cape in the Wind, landed in the breath of calm and immaculate ice rate, the body spread its entire length on the ice, almost extinct. Finally, not quite. He has just lost a fight and must be reactivated, revitalized. A little like the superhero franchises, which has been fighting the wing for several years, struggling to find some colors and entries to the box office.
But already, James Gunn, the filmmaker inspired by the trilogy of Galaxies goalkeepers and a The suicide squad Applaudi, plays quite finely in the failures of his superhero; An almost ordinary man at the end.
“You have to rest, you only have 83 % of your skills,” orders a protective robot in Superman. “I have to return to the fray,” I sweep the interested party, barely recovered in the legs, already in motion. James Gunn, in charge with his comrade Peter Safran to relaunch the DC machine in Warner Bros. in 2022 and create a new shared universe, called DC Universe, seems to respond to the skeptics for the voice of its protagonist.
Less Superman
Superman Therefore, the new version of the era dares, often for the better. The Superman is not so superman, more human, closer to the viewer. In charge of the screen by the quiet David Korenswet, who takes care of Henry Cavill, the extraterrestrial extraterrestrial freely, born on the planet Krypton, is Clark Kent in everyday life.
He officiates as a journalist in Daily planetLarge glasses door, to toasters and a colleague (Rachel Brosnahan, Superwoman without Cabo), who (this time) already knows her true identity. They fuck him, he gets wrong, he is wrong, he wants to do the world well, excuse little, and appreciate his beloved. He even poses a head on the shoulder of a benevolent father. The boy is naive. Not so serious. The time likes and believes in this type of very credible saviors, but whatever, what is super intensely is enough to make a movie.
Politics at will
Except that our beautiful soul, a bit too interventionist when it comes to saving its compatriots, is threatened by a maquiavell with shaved skull and penetrating blue eyes, a multimillionaire of egotic technology that is more (Nicholas Hault). The latter wants to prevent Superman from stopping the invasion of a small people who had not asked for anything to become king of a part of this piece of land.
Any similarity with reality is far from being fortuitous: the film addresses viral news, bots, cloning, full misinformation campaigns, paper of social networks, barbaric invasion, corruption, increased fascism and the end of the imminent world. Even police violence and imprisonment of political opponents have voice in the chapter.
Barely disgusted in these tormented times that a box office success of this caliber, with $ 225 million in budget according to The Hollywood ReporterDare these subjects. One still wonders if James Gunn does not pour a little in the offer. Too bad, we have already joined the characters for a long time.
Classic special effects
On the image side, Superman Salta, he sees flies, turns in an ultra column and energetic galaxy, alive, quite well filmed. The action scene in which our Superman saves an extraterrestrial nucleus baby that ends up conquering us. As much as in which an ally takes a road from the military unit against the context of the sunny pop melody.
That said, James Gunn could have been more generous in these small unconventional steps, to take less seriously. The same happens, it could have had more special effects, make them more unpublished, more holidays and embody the visual universe, ultimately quite classical.
Without completely reinventing homeric adventures in surrealism of survitamin, Superman It is still more than promising. And if the future of man was a superhero. Or vice versa …
Superman By James Gunn, with David Korenswet, Nicholas Hoult, Rachel Brosnahan, 129 minutes, in theaters on July 9, 2025.
Source: BFM TV
