Archenemy, the new superhero flick from Adam Egypt Mortimer, is a welcome addition to the non superhero superhero genre. His first film, Some Kind of Hate, was mean spirited and not very memorable. His second, Daniel Isn't Real, was a vast improvement. This here falls in the middle, definitely better than the first but not as good as the second. It's a superhero film about a homeless man that no one believes is a superhero let aloe outer space. The villain is a drug dealer, so it brought up thoughts of Super, Project Power and plenty of others, so some tropes sure, but the cast all meshes well and the "cut scenes" with comic art are pretty damn sweet. The film overall though feels a bit rushed and contrived, it is far from a bad film though and i welcome a flick like this over the tired blockbusters. It honestly feels like a film that should have been released by Amazon or Hulu but i think it will find it's audience through Dollar Tree. It sounds weird but this feels like a flick that will be talked about in hunt videos within the next two years.
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