In an age of what seems like unlimited prestige TV, the prospect of the contemporary updating of an outdated comic like Archie seems to be a precarious choice at the outset.
Director Scott Derrickson takes viewers to inner space, to a dimension far behind our mystic ken, in which a lone man is forced to confront a baddie so mystically bizarre that he doesn’t even have a body.
The film follows two drifters, a sociopath and his closeted sidekick, Duke and Boots, in what is a textbook study in the psychology of a sexual predator.
All in all, I couldn't recommend this movie unless you just want to turn your brain off and watch pretty people run and jump in obviously fake environments, telling a story you already know.
More than this, the time-travelling and dimension-hopping address something that fans of The Flash know well: Flash is secretly the most powerful character in the DC Universe.
