Justice League: Crisis On Two Earths Review

DC fans it's been around two weeks since I last talked about any of the animated films or live action films that the company has released and yes I know that I covered Return To The Batcave but that wasn't released by DC so yeah. So I thought that i'd tackle a film that i've not seen in years and even then the copy that I own only has one working disc since it's region 1 and I don't live in a region area luckily the disc that works is the one with the film and so here is my review of "Justice League: Crisis On Two Earths" enjoy.

The plot of the film is the Justice League goes to a parallel earth at the insistence of that earth's Lex Luthor to help him defeat the evil Crime Syndicate who are evil versions of the Justice League. In all honesty the plot to this film so simple which is perhaps it's biggest flaw as well as it's greatest strength because there's no depth to the story whatsoever but at the same time due it being simple the story can be very entertaining to see play out.

Starring in the film is William Baldwin as Bruce Wayne / Batman and Mark Harmon as Clark Kent / Superman. Also starring in the film is Chris Noth as Lex Luthor , Gina Torres as Superwoman , James Woods as Owlman , Brian Bloom as Ultraman , Jonathan Adams as J'onn J'onzz / Martian Manhunter , Josh Keaton as Wally West / The Flash and Aquaman , Vanessa Marshall as Princess Diana / Wonder Woman.

As for what i thought about the acting in the film it honestly wasn't that bad but the issue for me comes with the casting. Since alot of these actors just don't really match the characters there playing take for example William Baldwin who i'm sure is a good actor but he's not Batman he's to soft spoken to really give Batman the darkness that that character demands as for Gina Torres she's miscast because all you hear while watching the movie Zoe from Firefly and the same goes for James Woods all you here is the actor and not the character.

Doing the animation got the film is Moi Animation Studio who are most known for there work on Avatar: The Last Airbender. As for what I thought about the animation in this film it's honestly really freaking good which shouldn't come as a surprise since alot of the animated direct to DVD DC Comics films feature good animation but honestly the animation featured in this film looks like it could be in a theatrically released movie and one that went straight to DVD.

This film was originally meant to be set in the DAU (DC Animated Universe) with the film serving as a bridge between Justice League and Justice League: Unlimited. For whatever reason they chose not to make for a few years and then the line of straight to DVD DC films was proving to be a hit they found the script for this film and rewrote and reworked it into the film that we see today so technically you could say that this is a Justice League / Justice League: Unlimited movie but that's if you freaking wanted to tho.

I have to say that I liked the idea behind the Crime Syndicate having an evil version of the Justice League to me is such a cool and creative idea simply because it allows you to do things with those characters that you couldn't do with there regular counterparts. Think about it you can't have Superman threaten to kill someone but you can have Ultraman he's evil counterpart do so and that to me makes them a cool idea heck I don't know why they haven't made there way into live action yet since they very well could have made good villains in the 2017 live action Justice League movie.

Also being a god idea is that the world that the Crime Syndicate live on is in fear of them and what they can do. That right there gives are heroes a good reason to go and save this world since it's on the brink of destruction due to the Crime Syndicate and what there planning as such it makes sense the Lex would go and search out the Justice League to help since who else better to defeat these villains then people who have the same powers and gifts that the Crime Syndicate have.

This film is an hour and fifteen minuets which honestly isn't long enough for this kind of story because there are so many characters and subplots in this film and due to the short running time the film doesn't have the time to cover them all. As such I feel that this film should have been around an hour and thirty maybe an hour and forty minuets just to really let the plot breathe and give the plot the time that it needs but because of that short running time the film has to hit all of these plot beats fast and not all of them work because of the short running time.

One of those plot lines is the romance between J'onn J'onzz and Rose Wilson which barely gets brought up. Which is a shame because if that plot line was given the proper time to fully develop then it could have been something really sweet and touching but because it's stuck in a film that has a short running time it doesn't have as much impact as it could have had and it doesn't leave much of an impact on either the viewer or either character at least from what we see anyways in the film anyways.

Now then boys and girls since this an action film that does mean that we have to talk about the action that's in the film itself. Which I feel the most entertaining part of the film since to me it's always fun seeing the whole Justice League or in this case it's core six members (J'onn J'onzz , The Flash , Green Lantern , Superman , Batman and Wonder Woman) fighting as a team and showing what they bring to the team , it was also during this watch of the film that I realised that this film is alot like Mad Max: Fury Road in that like that movie this one is basically one long action sequence with only a few breaks inbetween and thats something that I never noticed before now.

Overall this was a rather enjoyable film and it did keep me entertained all throughout the film but at the same time it also left me wanting more but not in a good way. I wanted more from the story , I wanted more from the characters I just wanted more because the potential was there for a great movie but due to the short running time that was never going to happen and so even tho is a good movie it gets a 7 out of 10 from me.

All images used in this review were gathered from only one source that being the official DC Movies fandom wiki page. I have to say that alot of the images aren't as HD as I thought that they would be if anything I was expecting them to be more HD then what they are but at the same time this film did come out over ten years ago (it came out on February 23rd 2010) and so I can't really fault them for not having that many HD images and so I will say use them if you want to.

My First Impressions Of The Cursed TV Series

Ladies and gents while the rest of the entertainment industry has been shut down Netflix has been everyone's sole way of entertainment and well they are back with yet another new show. This time based around the legend of King Arthur and while the first teaser for the show didn't do anything for me it was the official trailer that made me mark the release date in my calendar and so here are my first impressions of "Cursed" enjoy.

The plot of the episode is a teenager with a mysterious gift is has something tragic happen to her and so sets out to find the wizard Merlin and give him a very familiar sword. Now I know that I made this episode seem boring and dull but that's because I want to you to check out the episode for yourselves , since I do believe that the episode is worth watching just for the story because it's that good and it does a good job of setting up the rest of the show.

Starring in this episode and thus the rest of the series are Katherine Langford as Nimue and Devon Terrell as Arthur. Also starring in this episode and the series is Gustaf Skarsgård as Merlin , Lily Newmark as Pym , Sebastian Armesto as King Uther , Catherine Walker as Lenore and Billy Jenkins as Squirrel. Since there is no complete cast list for this episode I have to assume that some of the people i've credited appear in this episode but I cannot say for sure.

In terms of what I thought about the acting in the episode it was honestly alot better then what I expected it to be. In that I was straight up expecting the acting in this series to be really freaking and so to see the first episode have actual good acting for me at least is a good thing and it helps that some of the cast members in this episode have some great chemistry with each other which makes me want to see more scenes with them together.

Now then in a strange twist the source material for this show was the 2019 book also called Cursed with both the book and this show being developed at the exact same time. This actually makes the series the quickest adaptation of any book which for me adapting this book so soon is a bold thing because it's not a proven hit and so there was no guarentee that the show would be a hit either and it means that there would need to be a sequel book published within the next few years in order to make sure that the book stays ahead of the show but it does help that the creators behind the book comic book legend Frank Miller and writer Tom Wheeler are also working on this show as both executive producers and show runner (Tom Wheeler) respectively.

Like alot of you i've not only never heard of the book but have also never read the book in fact the only thing I know about the book is that it features drawings by Frank Miller and that's it. As such I cannot say for sure if this episode is true representation of the early chapters of the book and neither can I cay which is better as such I can only judge this episode as it's own thing which while it does have it's flaws which I will be getting into it can be really entertaining to watch which is a good thing.

One of the things that I didn't like about the episode is the fact that it's nearly an hour long with the running time being around fifty five minuets. Which in my opinion is bit long for this episode since it doesn't have alot of story to fit that running time as such we do get alot of scenes with the main character that go nowhere and don't play a part in the overall plot of the episode as such I feel that this episode could have been around forty to forty five minuets in length and you'd loose nothing of importance.

This episode was also alot more violent then what I thought it was going to be which i'm not going to lie I loved that. Simply because if the types of things that we see happen in this episode happened in real life they would be violent and I really do hope that alot of the violent as hell stuff that we see in this episode has a lasting effect on either the series or the main characters just because it would make the show alot more interesting to watch in my opinion.

Let's take a second to talk about the main character of not only this episode but also the show as a whole that being Nimue as played by the stunning Katherine Langford. I actually like the character in this episode to me she's someone who is angry at the world because she wants to be "normal" or what she perceives to be normal and since her whole village knows that she's not that makes her want to last out and anyone over anything which honestly makes her fun to watch and it gives her alot of character which is something alot of YA novels don't do and yes this is based of a YA novel.

I'm not going to say who Nimue becomes in terms of the legend of King Arthur but they do kind of give it away in the opening minuets of this episode. Which is something that I didn't like simply because it now means that you know that something tragic will happen to this character and what there fate is and so I feel if they didn't tell us who this character becomes then it would make the stakes alt more higher in my opinion.

In my opinion this episode is alot better then the premier episode of Warrior Nun simply due to the fact that this episode didn't put me to sleep. On top of the fact that it has good acting and good writing both of which the Warrior Nun premier episode didn't have and as such I would very easily recommend this show over Warrior Nun to anyone because here you'll at least be entertained and you'd get to see characters that you actually like and want to see more of.

Overall this was a very good episode that did alot of the things that all good debut episodes should do in my opinion. That being setting up the characters journey for the rest of the show as well as the story of the show , that being said there are some bad things in this episode some of which i've covered in this review but i'm sure that if you guys see the episode you'll see somethings that I missed and as such this episode gets a solid 7.5 out of 10 from me.

All of the images used in this review were gathered from either the official Netflix fandom wiki page , Google Images or the official Cursed fandom wiki page. I have to say that I honestly wasn't expecting to find as many high definition images for this show as a found and so if you like this show and want to see HD images from the show then id highly recommend using the Cursed fandom wiki page and yes I know that not all images used were from this episode but it was the best that I could do.