Blue Beetle is a solid first outing for the Latino superhero

By Yarí Pérez Marín, Associate Professor in Hispanic Studies and in Visual Arts and Film, Durham University

Warning: this review contains spoilers for Blue Beetle.

Recent university graduate Jaime Reyes (Xolo Maridueña) is coming home with big dreams, ready for what’s next. But he soon realises his family has been putting on a brave face in his absence and that their fortunes have taken a turn for the worse.

A chance meeting with young heiress Jenny Kord (Bruna Marquezine) brings him into contact with an extraterrestrial artefact at the heart of Kord Industries’ covert plan to develop a military weapons system using alien biotechnology. But before that can happen, the…

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