Having milked their three bankable characters, Superman, Batman and Wonder Woman to death, the DCEU continues to dredge the bottom of the barrel. Regardless of every tolerable product derived from this endeavour, namely The Flash, the second Suicide Squad film and Birds of Prey, there have been more noisy, derivative and pointless failings, such as Black Adam and the braces of Aquaman and Shazam films. Blue Beetle is very much in this category, only adding a tad more humour, a supportive family for the titular hero and making the hero a Mexican American too, just to capture another previously mostly untouched audience demographic. The character itself is a transparent Iron Man copy, the mystical origins of his armour neatly obviating the need for any quasi-science. Then there's the regulation unfeasibly villainous corporation after the suit and a tailormade identically-powered adversary to fight. That's all you need to know.
4/10
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