Film Review - All Superheroes Must Die

As a reader of superhero comics for decades now it's been quite sad to see the way the idea has largely been treated by cinema, be it Disney serving up generic Silver Age CGI shit or a series of increasingly awful Alan Moore butcherings. Superheroes can be great, it doesn't all have to be Avengers crap.



While far from perfect, All Superheroes Must Die is something of a low-budget riposte to a bored Robert Downey Jr doing stand-up with a box around his head. There's no fancy effects, there are no stupid one-liners, there aren't even really any superpowers. But there's a shot at an interesting universe here and a different narrative, a look at the futility and danger involved in heroism.

It all goes off a little towards the end but the characters are engaging (being a bunch of belligerent arseholes, which is what a group of untrained people who were arbitrarily given powers would actually be like) and the concept hides the ultra-low budget.

Trost is a man of great potential. If Disney had any sort of balls they'd give him the stacks of cash they're handing to broken-down TV hacks and other jobbing camera-pointers and let him do Marvelman. But then that wouldn't sell many action figures.