2019 · sci-fi · animation · action
Reign of the Supermen
Directed by Sam Liu, Jake Castorena1h 27m2019
In the wake of The Death of Superman, the world is still mourning the loss of the Man of Steel following his fatal battle with the monster Doomsday. However, no sooner as his body been laid to rest than do four new bearers of the Superman shield come forward to take on the mantle. The Last Son of Krypton, Superboy, Steel, and the Cyborg Superman all attempt to fill the vacuum left by the world's greatest champion. Meanwhile, Superman's death has also signaled to the universe that Earth is vulnerable. Can these new Supermen and the rest of the heroes prove them wrong?
Our read: Reign of the Supermen (2019) reads as a neutral, breathless, inventive sci-fi · animation · action entry — extreme in intensity, epic-stakes in scope, measured in temperature, redemptive in outlook.
Neutral, breathless, extreme sci-fi / animation, inventive in texture. Redemptive, epic, measured.
- kinetic
- extreme
- redemptive
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