This movie takes a good idea for a super hero story and muddies the water with bad dialogue, clunky exposition, and forced character motivations. The special effects are very good, but its penchant for depicting violent deaths stands head and shoulders above its peers in the genre. It suffers from the same problem as Superman, granting its protagonist too much power to allow for coherent stakes. Surprisingly, Pierce Brosnan’s Dr. Fate gets the best character arc in the whole runtime.

Content warning: violence

Closest comparison: It’s like Suicide Squad (2021) by way of Man of Steel (2013).

Setting: Adventure
Plot: Super hero
Tone: Action