2007 · action · animation · sci-fi
Superman: Doomsday
Directed by Lauren Montgomery, Bruce Timm, Brandon Vietti1h 15m2007
When LexCorp accidentally unleashes a murderous creature, Superman meets his greatest challenge as a champion. Based on the "The Death of Superman" storyline that appeared in DC Comics' publications in the 1990s.
Our read: Superman: Doomsday (2007) reads as a sombre, breathless, inventive action · animation · sci-fi entry — measured in intensity, epic-stakes in scope, measured in temperature, redemptive in outlook.
Sombre, breathless, measured action / animation, inventive in texture. Redemptive, epic, measured.
- sombre
- kinetic
- intense
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