If the poster seems ugly to you and full of random lights, let's see if it looks cool? well the movie is too. That would be one way to sum it up.
And the first film from James Gun's Universe (if he himself said that this is part of his universe, although this will begin with Superman Legacy) is a clear example of where he outlines that universe. one full of old-fashioned silly cliches, jokes that aren't funny. Unnecessary awkward moments. and a blinded and already tiring vision of Latin American life.
After the first half hour of the movie, it becomes difficult to want to continue watching. And the characters are not engaging.
Xolo Maridueña as Jaime Reyes does not finish closing, the actor who has a Latino last name and appearance, makes more efforts to show himself as Latino than in his role, being contradictory at times that he is acting. Be careful, the rest of the cast does the same and cases like that of Belissa Escobedo, sister of the protagonist, make the over-exaggerated character unbearable.
The rest of the cast does not stand out, even though in the cast you have gems like Susan Sarandon who gives a performance in airplane mode.
As for the content of the film, it is literally an extract from the Marvel formula, good costume cosplay looks, and a lot of content in the form of ester eggs but no content or explanations in the end. It is a movie that, if it were for Streaming format, would surely attract more. but not for the cinema. It's a crude attempt to make a Spiderman full of clichés and Latin.
It is not surprising the result at the box office. And that is the profit line of the genre as long as they are committed to making movies like that. It will continue to plummet.
Because people like Gun are not interested in making a good script and story, he is simply interested in fulfilling the agenda and billing (billing his salary, if the movie fails it doesn't matter).
Snyder could have been criticized a lot, that he was very dark, that he killed Zod, that Martha, that Superman died. but the collection was not even remotely bad (except for those who wanted it to make the same or more than the UCM, which was already consolidated and at its peak), and much less the stories were.
Gun, who prior to joining Disney / Marvel does not have a filmography with a single success under his belt, made 3 Guardians of the Galaxy films, the first of which was successful and was excellent in bringing a group a stranger. However, the work was not entirely his, but rather the Marvel creative team that was working at that time building everything so that the director could only direct under x patterns, the 2, which raised well but the critics did not support. and the third that had a modeled success, which was not a hyper hype on the part of the fans. , then he directed The Suicide Squad which, gentlemen, do not use the excuse of the pandemic, because other films were also released and none of them did as badly as this one. And it did poorly, because it was bad at times competing with Birds of Prey, then the Pacemaker series was the only real success, which worked because it was a series format and streaming, which who knows the real numbers. (if the streaming numbers are liars) Even so, he is the new CEO of DCStudios. An Oscar winner is not. or a long-time fan who has been in the genre industry for a long time. On the contrary, they looked for a mediocre director, good for controversy. who is addicted to bringing in random unknown people, for a reason. "They are cheap and easy to control."
And Warner and Zaslav in Gun see that, the opportunity to lower costs to the extreme, cheaper salaries for actors and future directors. because we already know that the good special effects left along with Nolan and Snyder.
In short, the so-called Gun universe was born with a failure that doesn't even serve as a weekend movie.