The Supergirl reactions are starting to come in from people who’ve actually seen it, and this one is among the harshest.
Film Threat founder and longtime critic Chris Gore caught a screening and did not hold back.
“I leaned over to my friend during our screening of Supergirl and whispered, ‘This is terrible,'” Gore posted on X, before filming an out-of-theater reaction that got even more blunt.
“Profoundly Awful”
In the video reaction posted to YouTube, Gore and Alan Ng called the film a major disappointment.
“That was profoundly awful,” Ng says. “I didn’t think a movie could be this bad.”
The criticism centered on a few specifics. Both felt Milly Alcock was miscast in the lead. They knocked the cinematography as “dark, muddy,” arguing the film needed more light.
And lining up with first reactions, they took aim at the villains as “boring and cliche,” with a larger complaint that the movie is missing heroic ideals altogether: “There’s no heroism in this movie.”
Gore also flagged a story beat he found hard to believe ā without spoilers ā that the film “doubles down” on the idea that Superman was sent to Earth to conquer it.
Ng also summed up the experience as exhausting and boring, even saying he canceled his Supergirl tickets this week to see it a second time.
Watch the video:
The Timing Isn’t Ideal
What makes any early negative buzz notable is the backdrop.
Supergirl is already tracking soft for its opening weekend, and strong word-of-mouth is exactly what a film in that position needs to leg out.
Supergirl opens June 26, and the audience will have the final say. For now, the early word from respected critics out of a screening is about as negative as it gets.
