Supergirl (2026)

 Supergirl (2026)

6/10

Starring

Milly Alcock

Matthias Schoenaerts

Eve Ridley

David Krumholtz

Directed by Craig Gillespie

Alright, I was waiting to see this.

Curious to see how James Gunn would adapt Supergirl: Woman of Tomorrow, where Kara went on this journey with Ruthye to save her soul from getting corrupted by vengeance.

Now that I have seen it and witnessed all of the changes from the comic, I will say sometimes creative liberty can ruin a good story.

Let me get this out of the way, I enjoyed the movie, I felt it was not bad.

But this is a step down from Superman. Look, Milly Alcock was wonderful as Kara, and so was Eve Ridley as Ruthye.

The Supergirl and Ruthye dynamic worked for me, as it was good acting from the start, but where it messes up is when Ruthye's character went from daring to silly. More than once she walked up to Krem to try and fight him and get revenge.

Anyways, Kara's character was also written in a way that oversold the "I do not care about anything anymore" phase.

Like, she's at the bar taking on everyone, then on the ship taking on everyone, and all that taking on everyone felt more like chaos than anything actually moving the story forward. It reached a point where I was thinking, what happened to subtlety, to actually getting things done quietly?

Then we have Jason Momoa as Lobo. Look, pick any scene with him and you'll see his presence didn't matter. In the bar, he did nothing. When chaos broke out outside, he was more of a thorn. Even when he was captured alongside Ruthye and until he left, he was just there to move the plot along, with no real impact.

My best scene, hands down, was Kara getting knocked off the ship, flying straight to the sun to recharge, then getting hit by a beam from the ship and pushing it right back with her own eye beam.

Fun effects were on display there, and they made that scene shine.

Like I said, this is based on a comic, and I finished the movie wondering, why not follow the comic logic?

You see, the whole Krypto needs an antidote setup felt like a flimsy excuse to get Kara involved. In the comic, the reason Kara got involved was to keep Ruthye from becoming someone who's actually killed a person.

So this movie is more, set this girl loose on the world and watch her beat everyone in her path to get what she wants.

Look, I will be lying if I say this is not worth seeing, I enjoyed it. So if you want to go see it, prepare for chaos.