The Flash: 10 Reasons It's Awful

The DCEU has, to its credit, done a really good job with its directors. Yes, David Ayer's directing of Suicide Squad was awful and both the Shazam! films and Black Adam were fairly uninspired on a visual level, but all the other directors that this franchise has roped in have done a consistently terrific job (regardless of the mixed quality of the overall movies) and quite a few of the DCEU's films looked absolutely fantastic.

Unfortunately, The Flash is the worst-directed film this cinematic universe has delivered since Suicide Squad, and Andy Muschietti - despite being a more-than capable director - just felt out of his depth here. On a visual level, the film is a mess filled with iffy camera choices and random zooms, and it strongly suggests a director who didn't quite know what to do with the material.

Honestly, after this film went through so many different directors over the years, perhaps Warner Bros. just wanted a director less well-versed in this genre who would be happy to get a tentpole like this, and therefore wouldn't ask too many questions or have too much of a conflicting vision.

Andy Muschietti is also set to direct the upcoming Batman movie in the rebooted DCU. Well, he's now got at least a bit of experience working with this sort of budget, so hopefully he'll do a better job in his second go at a DC movie.