2023 · action · sci-fi · adventure
Blue Beetle
Directed by Ángel Manuel Soto2h 8m2023
Recent college grad Jaime Reyes returns home full of aspirations for his future, only to find that home is not quite as he left it. As he searches to find his purpose in the world, fate intervenes when Jaime unexpectedly finds himself in possession of an ancient relic of alien biotechnology: the Scarab.
Our read: Blue Beetle (2023) reads as a neutral, breathless, surreal action · sci-fi · adventure entry — extreme in intensity, epic-stakes in scope, tender in temperature, redemptive in outlook.
Neutral, breathless, extreme action / sci-fi, surreal in texture. Redemptive, epic, tender.
- kinetic
- intense
- surreal
- epic-stakes
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