'Blue Beetle' review: A bolt out of the blue that's brilliant fun

BLUE BEETLE

It has been tough to be a DC movie fan lately. Since James Gunn took over the running of its cinematic output, the whole company and universe have been in transition, caught between running down the remaining slate from the bombastic Zack Snyder-led regime and building up to Gunn’s reign.

Blue Beetle’s audition for the new Tron movie was not going well.

Blue Beetle is the second of the final three films in the now defunct DC Expanded Universe (DCEU), along with The Flash earlier this year, and the upcoming Aquaman: The Lost Kingdom. It’s also the most likely of the three to survive the DCEU cull, if you ask me.