Superman: Red Son

2020 • 85 minutes

About this movie

When Krypton’s last son crash-lands in Cold War-era Russia instead of rural Kansas, an alternate reality unfolds in this DC Elseworlds adventure. Here, we find Superman spearheading a Communist campaign to advance the ideologies of the Soviet state. Meanwhile, across the Atlantic, brilliant American scientist Lex Luthor devises a plan to rein in, and ultimately destroy, the alien Soviet threat. What follows is a gripping game of cat and mouse that will leave all of humanity hanging in the balance.

Ratings and reviews

This was a clever twist on Superman, who has always been portrayed as the embodiment of the, "American way". What if his ship had crashed in the USSR rather than the USA? A Superman with communist ideals and the ultimate corruption of those ideals. A good film overall with interesting reimaginings of some of DC comics staple characters. I haven't read the comic and I'm not sure how or if DC deviated from the source material or not, furthermore I felt the ending was a bit too neatly tied up.

A decent adaptation of the of the much praised Elseworlds graphic novel by Mark Millar, with animation artwork that heralds to the days of Batman the Animated Series and the animated Justice League series. I took away a star as they didn't show the ending that is in the graphic novel and is the very thing that everyone remembers about the story.

A great adaptation of the comic highly enjoyable. If they had put the final part of the story in (possibly as a mid credits scene) I would have given it top marks.