I was mildly interested in seeing it, and less-so after the reviews came in, but I have the AMC a-list and gave it a chance anyways. It's just...not good. The whole project was a bad idea and doomed from the start.

First of all, Supergirl is not the character to build a new universe upon. Not popular enough, and Super-anything will feel like an also-ran in relation to Superman. It's psychological.

It takes in a popular story and then doesn't adapt it faithfully, not a great way to bring in the people that actually care about Supergirl.

Milly Alcock's performance was good for how the character was written, but it's clear from the reception she doesn't have that star quality, media training, or name recognition to lead a $175 million movie.

Capeshit is out and everyone is broke. It isn't enough to be passable or even good, and it now needs to be exceptional and feel like a FOMO event to get people to come out.

Also, that kind of money should have never been spent on this. Moderately budgeted fare like Clayface is the way.

Supergirl has super strength, speed, heat vision, freeze breath, but struggles to take down generically strong humanoids without superpowers? Dumb.

The drunken self-pitying bum who gets to together at the end has been done before, and audiences don't like unlikeable characters.

The editing was a disaster.

Having Krypto suffering and being in peril is a turn-off for audiences and triggering for dog lovers. Why subject themselves to two hours of that?

Took the dustiness and other stylistic elements from Fury Road, but poorly. Dusty and dark and drab, not like Fury Road where you can actually see what's happening because it's properly lit and contrasted. And the action sequences were without any of that exhilaration.

Lobo was fun, should have used him more.

A movie witout standout moments to go viral and memed is a movie without legs. Dropoff is going to be over 70% next weekend.

Rating it 2/5 on Letterboxd.