The Flash: 10 Reasons It's Awful

Is this one of the worst-looking $200 million movies ever? You know what, maybe.

Given that Hollywood regularly throws the budget of a small country at these superhero flicks, you'd expect them to look good. but instead, The Flash looks like a PS2 cutscene. The opening and climactic action sequences, as well as the aforementioned ill-judged multiverse sequence, are particularly egregious offenders in this regard.

Much like Ant-Man and the Wasp: Quantumania (2023's other big superhero dud), this whole movie is embarrassingly bad in the special effects department and it's so hard to understand why it couldn't have afforded at least some half-decent CGI, considering how expensive it was. Like, seriously.

As a point of comparison: the 2010 British sci-fi film Monsters, which was the directorial debut of Rogue One's Gareth Edwards, had a budget of $500,000. That movie had astonishing visual effects... all of which were created by Edwards on his laptop in his bedroom.

What's your excuse, Warner Bros.?