Miller effectively layers that vein of melancholy beneath both the smart-aleck brashness of 18-year-old Barry and the rueful introspection of his older self. The story’s core, of a young man struggling to reconcile with the loss of his mother, carries it through. The troubled star turns out to be the film’s chief asset, bringing humour, heart and a vulnerability not often seen in big-screen superheroes. This is not a movie with any new ideas or dramatic rethinking. Miller’s smirking, gurning, mugging doppelganger performance is a trial and in any case gets lost in the inevitable third-act CGI battle apocalypse, which is weightlessly free of jeopardy and, like the rest of the film, does not exactly go by in a flash. Now a traumatised adult, Barry discovers he can move fast enough to travel through time, leading to the decision to go back and prevent his mother’s death. The Flash follows Barry Allen, who, as a child, sees his father (wrongly) jailed for the murder of his mother. The excitement for the long-awaited film was wholly overshadowed by Miller’s behaviour last year, as the non-binary actor, who uses they/them pronouns, battled accusations of physical assault, harassment, trespassing and grooming.Īlthough the 30-year-old star announced they were seeking help for their “complex mental-health issues” in August and having kept a low profile since, even steering clear of press promotion for the new release, DC bosses James Gunn and Peter Safran have been forced to justify keeping them on for any potential sequels. The Flash, directed by Andy Muschietti ( It) has been plagued with controversy thanks to lead star Miller, who portrays the lightning-fast superhero and his alter-ego Barry Allen. The critics have mixed feeling about controversial Ezra Miller’s DC film ahead of its cinema release.
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