Superman: Red Son

The animation was emotionless, the story was forced into a mere 84 minutes. The source material was so rich, so brilliant, that I couldn't believe I was witnessing this dumpster fire. The motives and character didn't come through, simply due to lack of time, and just bad dialogues. The final punchline, for example, was ruined by the verbosity. A TV Series could have done the material justice, because novels are best approximated by series and movies follow the structure of short stories more closely. Brilliant story, ruined by bad adaptation, I recommend people to try the graphic novel instead, and not to think of the novel lowly due to this movie.

I could have been a little biased because I've read the source material. I'm sorry, if that has colored my judgement.

Superman: Red Son had a few exciting passages, but they were few and far between. And despite some solid voice acting and a nice production design reminiscent of the Justice League/Unlimited TV-show the writers didn't do the story much justice.

Aside from capturing the conflict of Superman himself both in the performance by Jason Isaacs and the character's facial expressions when he encounters various upsetting moments, the writers managed to degenerate this version of Lex Luthor into the most generic bad guy.

To the newcomers, read the source material, it's a better story and better told. The delivery in this adaptation is clumsy and stripped down to barely make any sense in the most important aspects of the USA vs USSR setting.

Okay, silly headline out of the way, this could have been great, but instead, it turned into the usual America-good-Russia-bad oversimplification that's been going on and off for the last few decades. Promising start, but it was quickly undermined by poor dialogue, so-so animation--and it felt and looked rushed, cramming the source material into 84 minutes or so--and characters you couldn't really care about.

I get the twist on the usual DC characters--Batman, Green Lantern, and Wonder Woman--in this universe, but they weren't the least bit likeable. The voice acting was good, but if they'd had lines that mattered, it would have been more enjoyable.

Bottom line: read the graphic novel, or see the motion comic on other social sites. That's infinitely better than this version. DC usually puts out tremendous animated movies. Justice League: Dark, Gods and Monsters, Wonder Woman, and others are far superior examples of animation. This one isn't. It isn't a total disaster, but it could have been something great.

Superman Red Son Animated movie is entertaining and enjoyable; but the jaw dropping twist ending in the comic version is what made it so good.

Superman red son was a film that had a lot of potential to showcase interesting story but it failed big in delivering that to us,lets start with accents which everyone ones was bad and hard to listen to,also this film has a lot of political messages that doesnt fit inside of this story and they just felt like they were pushed in our faces to accept them and not to dare to doubt them,lets not forget that wonder woman is annoying as hell in this film with hers female power speeches that felt out of place,and just repeating them over and over again was tiresome and useless in every way,superman red son is wasted potential that failed in every important aspect of film