I’m sorry but any film that uses the old “sparks flying out of juncture boxes on telephone poles” effect gets an immediate fail. To me those sparks are a forecast for a thousand hack elements yet to come. A superhero movie has to be whipsmart and dryly self-parodying (Ant-Man) or extra-fleet and super-stylish (the Captain America films) or there’ll be resistance from this corner. The trailer for this August 7th release, which was shot in Baton Rouge, Louisiana, is suggesting the presence of generic goods and numbing familiarity.
