![]() There's so much about Public Enemies that seems like it ought to be making my inner fanboy burst at the seams. Berkowitz is playing with the same chess pieces but rearranges them around the board in a way that makes much, much more sense. ![]() Metallo just kind of shows up in the comic without any real setup, and the logic swirling around Luthor's billion-dollar bounty for Superman is so far out there that it's kind of tough to believe the world at large would rally against the Man of Steel like that. This adaptation by Stan Berkowitz actually improves on Jeph Loeb's writing quite a bit (and snarky comic geeks, this is probably where you fill in "that's not saying much"). The most sweeping change is the lack of internal dialogue, a fundamental aspect of the "Superman/Batman" series that I doubt would translate to the screen all that well. The story's not any worse off without them. What'sĭifferent.? This movie loses the siege on Wayne Manor by the extended Batman family, and Earth-2 Superman sits this one out. I'm not sure I've seen an adaptation of anything - a novel, a comic book, or otherwise - as close as Public Enemies is. ![]() Virtually every character and every beat from the comics have clawed their way in here, and even much of the dialogue is carried over verbatim. Re-reading the original six issue arc by Jeph Loeb and Ed McGuinness, it's amazing just how faithful this adaptation is. Throw in colossal battles with Power Girl, Katana, Black Lightning, Captain Atom, Major Force, Starfire, Hawkman, and Captain Marvel too.? Public Enemies may be ridiculously short - minus credits, it clocks in right at an hour - but there's a ray blast, a twenty megaton explosion, or a haymaker that could level the Chrysler Building for pretty much every last second of it. This is a movie with so much frantic action that some of them are on-screen for literally seconds. ![]() Freeze, Captain Cold, Banshee, Copperhead, Black Manta, Deadshot, Nightshade, Gorilla Grodd, Catman, Giganta.and that's not even close to a complete list. I mean, Metallo, Bane, Mongol, Solomon Grundy, Killer Frost, Mr. I tried keeping a running tally of just how many villains take a stab at that billion-dollar bounty, but even with as much of a lifelong comic geek as I am, I still lost track. An army of the most powerful superhumans on the planet are on the attack as Batman and Superman try to clear his name - oh, and take out the meteor that threatens to snuff out hundreds of millions of lives - and every badnik the world over is swarming in to score a ten-figure payday. Addressing the nation, Luthor offers a billion dollar bounty to anyone who can bring Superman in to face justice. Luthor has some time to kill as the warheads are being armed, so he seizes hold of the fear of a world already on-edge and frames the Man of Steel for cold-blooded murder. He lends a hand when he can, but emerging back into Metropolis just means he'll have to suffer through another lecture from the rest of the superhero crowd about how much good Lex has done, even though they all recognize that this stab at utopia is nothing more than an ego trip for him.īoasting one of the most indomitably brilliant minds on the planet, it looks as if President Lex can steamroll over any problem that comes his way, but when a meteor of pure kryptonite the size of Zimbabwe starts bearing down on Earth.? Amanda Waller pleads with Luthor to unleash the army of metahumans he has on the payroll, but the president smugly declines, preferring instead to try and wipe it out with an array of missiles so he can gobble up all the credit himself. Supes isn't holing up in the Fortress of Solitude, quietly sitting out the rest of Luthor's term as Commander-in-Chief, though. Superman has long since fallen out of sight, however: in part because the world at large is in such uncharacteristically good shape, so much fear and mistrust has been sown over aliens throughout the past few months, and.c'mon: President Lex. Crime rates have plummeted.so deeply, actually, that the superhero crowd isn't left with all that much to clean up, and most of them have even signed up for government service under Lex. Under President Luthor really isn't all that bad.
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