Barry Allen aka The Flash (Ezra Miller) is waiting to be served a sandwich at a diner, when he receives a call from Alfred Pennyworth (Jeremy Irons) with a plea to stand in for Batman (Ben Affleck) who are chasing the thieves of a deadly virus.
The problem is in Gotham where a hospital is falling apart, endangering patients and staff. Barry lets sandwich be sandwich and hurries to the hospital, where he saves all, while the building gets destroyed. After that he rushes back to the diner, to get his sandwich, and go to work. His biggest worries are an upcoming trial against his father Henry (Ron Livingston), who is being accused of the murder of his wife, Barry's mother, Nora (Maribel Verdu). An old school pal Iris West (Kiersey Clemons) is now a journalist and she questions Barry, if he has anything to say regarding his father's case, though both seem to like each other quite a lot, Barry won't talk with her because he is feeling misused.
Thinking of his incredible speed, he wonders if he can, so to say, run back in time, and hopefully find out who is the real killer of his mother, and perhaps even save her life. He gived it a try, and at first it seems that he is lucky. He is now at his parent's house, and Nora is still alive.
But suddenly he finds out that there's something wrong, because he can see himself coming home from school, only as a younger version. He succeeds in stopping the younger Barry. They talk and slowly it dawns on him, that he has arrived in a wrong timeline. Meanwhile Superman's old Nemesis General Zod (Michael Shannon) has landed, he will destroy the world, if they won't bring him the last living Krypton person on Earth. Barry can see he needs help and says he will be trying to contact Superman. But as it turns out, nobody in this timeline knows Superman. Therefore he will try to look up his friend Batman. Together, the two Barry's find Wayne's Manor.
To Barry's big surprise, the Bruce Wayne they meet is not the man he knows, this Batman (Michael Keaton) has been retired for 25 years. He chooses to help them, and they find out that the last person from Krypton, is being held captive in Russia. Off they go in the Bat-plane. It shows that they're arriving in a facility with lots of scientists, and learn that the wanted person is being held in solitude, and has been for years.
Of course they find the prison, and they discover that it contains a person from Krypton, but it's not Superman, it's Supergirl aka Kara Zor-el (Sasha Calle). Now the three superheroes sets off to fight General Zod, a very exciting and dangerous fight.
This is the superhero movie that in my opinion makes the best use of the Multiverse. It also stands out in the way that is one of those superhero films that uses quite a lot of humour, perhaps only outdone by Batman: The Movie (1966), and the two DeadPool movies (2016 & 2018). There's really good acting all around, and it's quite fantastic how Ezra Miller is playing both Barrys. There is a couple of cameos to look out for, George Clooney, Gal Gadot and Jason Momoa. The film has been long underways, but director Andy Muschietti has done a real good job. It also must be said that it's wonderful to see Michael Keaton back as Batman. Hopefully there will be a sequel. A little fun thing: While Barry is waiting for his sandwich at the diner, the radio starts playing the fantastic Chicago song "If You Leave Me Now". Then Alfred calls. When Barry returns from saving all the people at the hospital, the Chicago song is still playing on the radio.
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