Justice League: Crisis on Infinite Earths – Part One
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| Directed by | Jeff Wamester |
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| Screenplay by | James Krieg |
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| Based on | Crisis on Infinite Earths by Marv Wolfman and George Pérez |
| Starring | Matt Bomer |
| Music by | Kevin Riepl |
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| Distributed by | Warner Bros. Home Entertainment |
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| Country | United States |
| Language | English |
Justice League: Crisis on Infinite Earths – Part One is an American animated superhero film based on the DC Comics superhero team the Justice League. Based on the DC Comics storyline "Crisis on Infinite Earths" (1985–1986) by Marv Wolfman and George Pérez, the film is directed by Jeff Wamester from a script by Jim Krieg. It is the eighth installment in the Tomorrowverse, sharing continuity with the films of the franchise that began with Superman: Man of Tomorrow (2020) and is the first part of a trilogy of films.
Justice League: Crisis on Infinite Earths – Part One was released on January 9, 2024 with two sequels scheduled to be released throughout the rest of the year.
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Plot
An elderly John Constantine sends Barry Allen on a "time trip" to key moments in his life from gaining his metahuman abilities to a fight against the power absorbing android Amazo created by professor Dr. Anthony Ivo to his wedding with Iris West.[lower-alpha 1]
During the fight with Amazo, Clark Kent / Superman gets injured and is aided by Barry and Oliver Queen / Green Arrow to Bruce Wayne / Batman.[lower-alpha 2] In response, Bruce suggests to form a team with Barry, Clark, Oliver, Mari McCabe / Vixen, and John Jones / Martian Manhunter. However, they fail to recruit Hal Jordan / Green Lantern.
During a press conference to unveil the Justice League, Amazo attacks the Justice League, whose original primary function to improve human life has been altered by Lex Luthor to kill anyone that is not human. With the League unable to defeat Amazon due to it ability to absorb and copy their abilities, Batman opines that an airstrike to is only way to destroy Amazo, but the others reject the idea. The Flash goes to Ivo, who reveals he has contracted a disease that ages him rapidly, and has been researching quantum energy absorption with Luthor to create Amazo using extra-terrestrial technology in hopes to siphon metahuman abilities using them to find a way extend human life. Ivo sacrifices himself by having Amazo give up all the absorbed metahuman energy to Ivo. Batman deduces Luthor gave Ivo his disease to prompt his experiments, which causes Amazo to turn against Luthor. With Luthor arrested, Amazon returns the stolen powers to Superman, Vixen and Manhunter before shutting down.
Meanwhile, Barry is sent by Constantine to a parallel Earth, Earth-3. After a brief confrontation with his Earth-3 doppelgänger Johnny Quick, he is captured by the Crime Syndicate – doppelgängers of the Justice League – and is taken to their Hall of Crime, where he is interrogated by Superwoman’s lasso, confirming their deceased Luthor's theory of the multiverse. Suddenly, an anti-matter wave threatens Earth-3 before its destruction. Constantine explains to Barry that he witnesses the parallel Earths being destroyed as his punishment and that Barry shares the same guilt.[lower-alpha 3]
On Barry and Iris's wedding, Harbinger recruits Barry, Oliver, Mari, and John Stewart / Green Lantern to a space station, where other heroes based on their skills, strength, and speed from the multiverse have been gathered as ordered by a Monitor, an ancient multiversal being. The Monitor explains that an anti-matter wave, which is capable of destroying an entire universe, threatens the multiverse. Barry's time tripping inspires the Monitor to create massive vibrational towers on the remaining Earths that will allow them to phase through the wave and survive. However, the wave rapidly spreads before the towers are completed.
Barry uses his speed powers to slow time for him and Iris, and they grow old together while completing Earth-1's tower with the help of Amazo. Upon completing the tower, the elderly Iris dies. The elderly Barry reverts to normal speed and activates the tower network by using a cosmic treadmill. The vibrational energy destroys his tower and Amazo, but causes the antimatter wave to pass through the various Earths and dissipate, apparently saving the day. Barry is approached by the Spectre. The Spectre claims that Barry bears responsibility for the crisis, but that it is up to the Speed Force to determine his fate. Barry is then sent back to the moment he gained his powers, and has an epiphany. Barry then appears as a vision to Batman when he was trapped in the Warlord segment of Justice League: Warworld, telling him to go back to before "the beginning". Barry then vanishes, seemingly dead. Back on the space station, the heroes celebrate their victory. However, Harbinger, who is revealed to be Supergirl, realizes that they might have changed history when she sees her friends from the Legion of Superheroes begin to disappear.[lower-alpha 4]
Voice cast
Production
The film was announced at San Diego Comic-Con in July 2023.[2] An official trailer and the voice cast was revealed on December 5, 2023.[1]
Sequels
Two sequels titled Justice League: Crisis on Infinite Earths – Part Two and Justice League: Crisis on Infinite Earths – Part Three are scheduled to be released throughout 2024 on digital.[1]
Release
Justice League: Crisis on Infinite Earths – Part One was released on digital in the U.S. and Canada on January 9, 2024, and on Ultra HD Blu-ray and Blu-ray January 23.[1]
Reception
Rafael Motamayor, writing for Inverse, praised the film, writing: "Justice League: Crisis on Infinite Earths – Part One Finally Gets the DC Crossover Event Right", calling it "A worthy adaptation focusing on heart and character".[3] Mae Abdulbaki, in a review for Screen Rant, also gave the film a positive review, praising its faithfulness to the source material.[4]
Hayden Mears of IGN rated the film a 7 out of 10, with the verdict: "Justice League: Crisis on Infinite Earths – Part One knows what it is and strives to do right by its source material. There's no depth, no moral murk, no optional profundity for the insight-hungry. Just good, clean, marginally sensical fun. The action and performances are nothing to shake a Batarang at, but it never loses sight of its stakes and (mostly) prioritizes character over plot".[5] Jennifer Borget of Common Sense Media gave it three out of five stars, praising its story but commenting that "The constant jumping between alternate Earths can make it feel like a time-traveling treadmill at first, and the action scenes might trigger a bit of déjà vu from other superhero tales."[6]
See also
Notes
- ↑ As depicted during Justice League: Warworld (2021).
- ↑ As depicted in the post-credits scene of Batman: The Long Halloween.
- ↑ As depicted in Justice League Dark: Apokolips War (2019) and the short film Constantine: House of Mystery (2022).
- ↑ The story continues in Part Two
- ↑ Credited as "Homeless Man".
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