Written by Luke Barnes
Summary
Black Adam, played by Dwayne Johnson, escapes from his prison to then engage in deeply generic superhero shenanigans.
My my if this is the best the DCEU can produce then it really is in need of a reboot pronto.
This is the most generic superhero film that I have seen in a while, this film is so obsessed with giving us mind numbing CGI spectacles that it forgoes anything even barely resembling a story or character instead choosing to use an off-putting barrage of mostly badly done bang bang effects.
Johnson is playing himself, which is fine is you like that but not if you actually wanted Black Adam to have a personality beyond ‘oh look The Rock has super powers now.’ They try and give Black Adam somewhat of an upsetting backstory but the fact that the Rock can’t emote in any real way just kind of kills that off early on.
The Justice Society are annoying, I suppose this is what the film wants as it wants you to cheer on Black Adam as he beats them up. I thought that Doctor Fate, played by Pierce Brosnan, was easily the best of them and the film and then the film goes and kills him off. To do this and try and give him this big heroic send-off doesn’t work as we haven’t seen him in any other films and he has barely been introduced or developed here so his death has very little impact beyond angering fans of the character such as myself. I thought that they might bring him back in a post credits scene, but no they have to bring back Superman, played by Henry Cavil, again because God forbid they have the film be standalone.
Overall, weak and generic.
Pros.
A few cute moments between Atom Smasher and Cyclone
Some interesting comments on America as the world’s unwanted policeman
Cons.
The Rock is miscast and can’t emote or do anything beyond play himself
It is one big CGI mess
They brought in Doctor Fate only to kill him
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