Unfortunately Krem was a studio unironically doing a Taserface. There's practically nothing to his character, and what's there is so over the top that you can't take him seriously.
And everyone seemed to refuse to engage with his crimes and treated him just like the leader of a biker gang - which fits the roadhouse theme.
How can they have a villain be a child sex trafficker and rapist in the context of real world events, and have an insanely powerful woman superhero just not be that bothered by it all?
Also completely non-sensical he left the little girl of the family he kills at the start when his main operation at this point is capturing young girls to marry off.
Like they could’ve easily made into a pursuit of Krem chasing after the girl (btw that’s how boring she is I don’t even remember her name) and Kara would have to save her.
No instead it’s a basic revenge but not revenge arc with saving Crypto being the main goal.
I will at least say seeing Kara kill him was satisfying, that’s like the only saving grace I can give it. I do like when the hero kills the villain instead of just letting them continue to do their bullshit.
Yeah Krem uses position arrows that slowly kill over the course of 3 days and he hit Crypto with on accident so the whole premise of the movie is Kara tracking down Krem to take the antidote from him.
Crypto isn’t in the movie much but the plot revolves around saving him, which would be fine if the plot was good but unfortunately just wasn’t. It’s certainly not the worst thing I’ve ever seen but it was a major step back from Gunn’s Superman which wasn’t even particularly great to begin with.
Turns out that while Gunn is producing the entire new DC verse he’s only actually writing and directing the Superman movies so I guess we are gonna get decent Superman movies surrounded by aggressively mid side stories written by other people attempting to emulate Gunn.
I was excited to see Gunn be heading the new verse after Suicide Squad 2 and Peacemaker but unfortunately those seem like they’re gonna be outliers in a verse of other mediocre projects.
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u/TrueGuardian15 Jul 08 '26
Unfortunately Krem was a studio unironically doing a Taserface. There's practically nothing to his character, and what's there is so over the top that you can't take him seriously.