Sad to read the reviews of so many resolute Superman fans here. I mean, people were asking for "backstory" here. Bro, we know the Smallville story front to back even if we aren't Superman fans. The real kick here is the challenge: what if, contrary to what DC Comics espoused,Kal-El was not only an alien but an emissary sent to cleanse the Earth of humans? How about that one? What if he shared nothing in common with humans beyond appearance? What if he never "matured" in the sense that humans did at all? And how exactly would earth cope with a being who was indestructible by any Earthly means, who never tired, and who had powers so varied and profound even he didn't know what they all were? It was an enormously scary movie, and the character Brandon was very well played. The trick in the cast though was Elizabeth Banks, playing the mother..who managed to star in ANOTHER movie that smashed childhood stereotypes and "knowledge" of characters in the same year: The Happytime Murders. Great movie there, too.
Review of Brightburn
