Super Girl Bombs At Box Office

So I watched Citizen Vigilante this past weekend. I was mildly disappointed, probably because I was expecting something more like Nobody, The Punisher, or Death Wish, or perhaps something more focused on migrant crime. The film spent as much time on three delinquents that refused to pay for bus tickets and, later, were beating up a teenage boy in a park, as it did on the Muslim "youths" which gang raped a girl (probably based on this incident from Germany, but could have been describing dozens of other such incidents across Europe and the UK, and which still continue to happen). The film also suffered from a disjointed time line. And for goodness sake, the main character acted like he wanted to be caught: no gloves, no attempt to disguise his features, and constantly carrying an operating cell phone. 

    But my point is not to review Citizen Vigilante but to point out that the film--which purportedly only had a budget of between $5 million and $9 million had grossed more than $67 million some 5 days ago and has topped Amazon's charts for purchased movies since its release on Amazon Prime--is performing better than Supergirl of which the Daily Mail reports: "Supergirl bombs at the box office: Milly Alcock's 'surly' superhero fails to entice viewers with a flop opening weekend after lacklustre reviews." That article indicates that Supergirl's production costs were $170 million or more (and that does not include advertising costs) and opened with $38 million in U.S. and Canadian theaters. It added $30 million in overseas markets. It is pretty obvious which movie will provide its investors a greater return on investment (ROI). Using the high end budget of $9 million and only considering the $67 million that it had raked in as of a week ago, Citizen Vigilante had a ROI of 7.44. In order for Supergirl to provide the same ROI--just using the production budget and ignoring marketing costs--it would need to gross $1.27 billion. 

    I don't know why Supergirl did so poorly as I haven't seen it. But I would guess that it failed like so many other big budget superhero films of late: it was written and/or directed by people with essentially no experience writing or directing (and absolutely no experience in the genre) who were picked because of DEI or some other reason having nothing to do with merit; and who provided a crappy story with unlikable characters rather than heroes. 

    Whatever you might think of Sanders in Citizen Vigilante, he was a type of hero. On the other hand, Supergirl, based on what I've read and heard, was just another self-obsessed, immature girl boss.