Brightburn: When super bad becomes super predictable

Brightburn is one of those movies that seems to have a great idea that you can build a whole film on, but then does absolutely nothing new or interesting in it. If you've seen the trailer, you've seen the whole movie.

Maybe it's because there have just been so many comic books versions of the 'what if Superman, but evil?', usually done with a bit more style, and often with a lot more gore (especially when a company like Avatar gets into the action). Superhero movies have always been decades behind their comic book counterparts - the whole Marvel Universe thing is still telling the sort of stories that were commonplace in the comics in the 1970s - and Brightburn keeps up that tradition.

But it also has literally nothing new to add to this weird little sub-genre of superheroes gone bad, other than doing it with a bit of Hollywood gloss. It also has the usual irritating habit of promising to take things further with a sequel that will never happen, leaving behind nothing more than another pointless movie about another pointless supervillain.