Synopsis
After his wife falls under the influence of a drug dealer, an everyday guy transforms himself into Crimson Bolt, a superhero with the best intentions, though he lacks for heroic skills.
Your Movie Library
Cast
- Rainn WilsonFrank Darbo
- Elliot PageLibby
- Liv TylerSarah
- Kevin BaconJacques
- Gregg HenryDetective John Felkner
- Michael RookerAbe
- Andre RoyoHamilton
- Sean GunnToby
- Stephen BlackehartQuill
- Linda CardelliniPet Store Employee
Recommendations
- 75
Entertainment Weekly
It's really a one-joke movie, but the joke is a good one. - 75
Boston Globe
Smart, sick, and subversive, Super gives you what you want only to make you wonder why you want it. - 75
The A.V. Club
Super exists in the no-man's land between indie quirk and raw exploitation, and when it works, it's thrillingly off-balance. - 70
The Hollywood Reporter
A giddily over-the-top, super-entertaining goof on the Everyman crimefighter flick written and directed with evident relish by James Gunn. - 70
Salon
Super is occasionally brilliant, sometimes awful and terribly confusing overall. - 60
Village Voice
Gunn successfully shifts between celebrating violence and mourning it, but his handling of emotional evolution is clumsier; he seems particularly out of his depth in the film's mawkish ending. But Page is a revelation: There isn't another gorgeous twentysomething actress working today who could more convincingly reveal sexual bravado to be simultaneously silly and creepy. - 50
Boxoffice Magazine
This depraved charmer offers enough to admire and a specialized hipster crowd will enjoy it, if to a mutedly positive effect. - 50
Variety
Waiting for Super to deliver the funny is an experience as long as the film itself.
