Dir: Craig Gillespie, US, 2026, 108 mins
Cast: Milly Alcock, David Corenswet, Eve Ridley, Matthias Schoenaerts, Jason Momoa
Review by Carol Allen
Supergirl isn’t behaving in a very traditional comic book heroine manner though. She’s unhappy, drinking too much and therefore suffering from a perpetual hangover. She has to get her superheroine act together though when Ruthye Marye Knoll (Eve Ridley) asks her for her help in avenging her dad, who’s been murdered by the evil Kreem (Schoenaerts), who has a nasty habit of kidnapping young women for breeding purposes. Not only that – he’s very cruel to Krypto dog, which makes him a total villain in my eyes. Also on Supergirl’s team fighting Kreem is tough, cigar chomping bounty hunter Lobo (Jason Momoa), adding more than a touch of Mad Max to an already dark scenario.
There’s plenty of action – fights and such – for fans of this type of movie. Schoenaerts makes a good fist as the leery villain, bald headed and with a face covered in a net of steel ball bearings like a bad case of silver acne. And Supergirl does what’s expected of her, eventually getting her mojo back and hovering around above the battleground in traditional Super Kryptonian style like a very well dressed drone.
But the character and the actress have more to offer than that. The non action scenes hold the interest too. Alcock is a good actress with a potentially wide range, who has a strikingly pretty face, rather like a feminine version of the young Brad Pitt’s beauty. The friendship between her character and Ridley as Ruthie holds promise for the future. A feminist Batman and Robin type duo perhaps? While the scenes of her back story with her parents sending their then 14 year old daughter to Earth as her home planet Krypton is disintegrating around them give her some context – not surprising really that she takes to drink as a young adult.
Corenswet as Superman pops up a few times to keep an eye on his young cousin. One particular flashback gem is the scene where he goes to greet her on her arrival on this planet and realizes they have a communication problem – she only speaks Krypton and he only speaks English – well American – because he was raised in Kansas, wasn’t he?
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