Reign of the Supermen (2019)

Reign of the Supermen (2019)

Dir: Sam Liu

NOTE: SPOILERS AHEAD

A sequel to The Death of Superman (2018), set six months after its predecessor's end. 

Rather than show us what a world without Superman is like, it instead quickly fills up the necessary spaces with four new supermen, each with their own (initially secret) reason for wanting to protect Metropolis from itself.

A lack of faith in either script or viewer means we're told outright that in order to heal emotionally, Lois needs to solve the mystery of the four. The journey that should follow that realisation is a solid basis to build a sequel on, but the story has even more problems than The Death of Suprman and I lost interest.

If that hadn't been the case, however, I'm confident that the absurdity of the resurrected Super-Jesus and his three disciples hurtling toward a fisticuff finale would've been more than enough to ultimately kill it for me.

To add insult to injury, parts of the source text had been brought to the screen before in the superior Superman: Doomsday (2007) animation. The second attempt was worse, despite having a lot more time to make an impact. Superman deserves better than this crap.

NOTE: RotS was also released in 2019 alongside its predecessor, The Death of Superman. That version, renamed The Death and Return of Superman (2019), joins the two halves together, creating one 2 hr 46 min movie. The joining is a simple fade-to-black with all credits left until the very end and with the first film's post-credit scenes positioned where they ought to be.

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