#Clayface 7.0/10 👍🏽 overall a decently good movie BUT flawed. It’s the first DCU movie I genuinely enjoyed and would watch again (Clayface>Superman 25>Supergirl). Cons: No actual transformations, just instant pop up transformation after the fact. One of the things that make Clayface iconic are his transformations (imagine watching transformers and Optimus goes from truck to humanoid robot with a flash transition and there’s no transformation). Pacing issues- first 10-15 minutes are extremely rushed and give you no reason to care for Matt before being mutilated by the mob, those10-15 minutes should’ve been the first 30 minutes of the movie setting up Matt as a character and while the second act recovers and finds a good pacing the third act at times is too slow. Writing issues- this movie feels like it’s 2 different scripts worked into 1, definitely reworked by the studio/Gunn. The beginning of the film feels like a different movie and the writing is almost amateur-ish with the foreshadowing being way too on the nose and again by the second act it feels like a different movie. A lot of the motives and background are simply just told to you with no work put in and dialogue is overly simplistic. Honestly the beginning of the movie felt like a YouTube fan film. This movie would’ve heavily benefited more from a fantastical transformation rather then the Ai Nano robots more grounded approach (obviously that was intended for Reeves universe since it was initially a Reeves universe movie before Gunn took over) because the nano tech doesn’t really properly explain the transformations or the survival. Finally- the tragic untragic ending, the thing that made Clayface iconic was the tragedy that BTAS gave the villain, Matt was wronged and was DESPERATE to get his life back at any cost and that drove him to do bad things but it was for a personal greater good overall while even Batman tried to help him but in the movie even after revenge he kills simply out of selfishness so ultimately there’s no tragedy that reels you in because the movie doesn’t initially put in the work to sell you the character and the character ends up being a selfish prick that gives you nothing to root for. Also the ending was such a rip off from joker that it didn’t land. Pros: It has awesome gruesome scenes, good suspense, pushes the boundaries a bit and a pretty good score after the first act. Strong second act. Overall it’s just great to see Clayface on the screen as he’s one of my favorite villains.