“Blue Beetle” (**1/2 out of four) was a likeably done adaptation of the DC comic-book series about an alien organism that chooses a young man (Xolo Mariduena) to be its symbiotic host and bestows him with a suit of armor that enables him with extraordinary sensibility and superpowers and turns him into the title hero the Blue Beetle who battles with various villainous forces (Susan Sarandon and Raoul Max Trujillo) who want to use his powers for their own good. Fast-paced and engaging and gives fans their money’s worth with action scenes and visual effects but it becomes somewhat mechanical after a while and starts to seem interchangeable with various other DC/Marvel adaptations. Film marks the 14th in the DC adaptation universe.