Black Adam (2022)

United States of America

Action, Adventure, Science Fiction

New Line Cinema, Flynn Picture Company, DC Films, Seven Bucks Productions, Warner Bros. Pictures

Dwayne Johnson, Aldis Hodge, Noah Centineo, Sarah Shahi, Quintessa Swindell, Marwan Kenzari

Jaume Collet-Serra

Adam Sztykiel, Sohrab Noshirvani, Rory Haines

Taglines: Power born from rage.

lightning, superhero, anti hero, based on comic, demon, superhero team, duringcreditsstinger, dc extended universe (dceu)

Nearly 5,000 years after he was bestowed with the almighty powers of the Egyptian gods—and imprisoned just as quickly—Black Adam is freed from his earthly tomb, ready to unleash his unique form of justice on the modern world.

Reviews:

Author: GenerationofSwine
OK, this isn't a bad movie. But, it as a bit much CGI (like everything else nowadays) and I think modern audiences are getting tired of paying out the wazoo to basically watch a video game. And then the narration. The voice is too young and though it does make sense with the plot, it is jarring because basic tradition is that narrations have an older and wiser voice... Morgan Freeman, Spock, etc. So that is going to instantly set the radiance off. And then the Snyderverse is over. Period. They made no illusions about that, we have known it was over for years, there was even a massive backlash about his cut of Justice League because it was given the fans what they wanted and thus bad... because politics and politics have declared that people that are enthusiastic about anything that isn't left wing politics are evil. Because the world has gone insane. But the greater point is that people already don't care. They not only already don't care, but they were sort of told not to by the very people that made the movie. It's world is over. This world ended before it was released. Which, sucks, because Shazam was my favorite to come out of the DCEU. People aren't going to care. They aren't going to watch it and when they do it's going to come with disdain. But as far as a Superhero movie goes... come on, you're not really getting much. They aren't Chinatown, they are just popcorn munchers and nothing more, and that isn't bad. But let's call it what it is. Unless they are political like the MCU, they are just mindless action and gags. And if they are political like the MCU, they sort of stink. This is relatively politics free. It's high on adventure and so-so on action (see the above CGI comment) so you have a decent film for the genre. It just should have come out before they declared the universe dead.