With James Gunn directing the new Superman flick, perhaps now is a good time to revisit Super, his dark take on the crime-fighting genre. Released in 2010 – four years before Gunn made Guardians of the Galaxy for Marvel – Super is gritty, weird and considerably less wholesome.
Frank (Rainn Wilson) is a diner chef who, by his own estimation, has little going for him except his marriage to Sarah (Liv Tyler). So when Sarah, a recovering addict, relapses and leaves him for a local drug kingpin, Jacques (Kevin Bacon), Frank’s life falls apart.
