'The Flash' review: Gone before you really get to know him

Whoosh! There he goes in his flame-resistant long johns, another DC superhero getting the live-action treatment. Grant Gustin stars as Barry Allen, a young super-sleuth who works for the Central City police department. Fascinated by particle physics, Barry is hit by a bolt of accelerated energy during a mishap at a local research facility called STAR Labs. As we've known since the Silver Age-era Flash first streaked across comic book pages in 1956, the accident means Barry can run faster than th...