While Marvel tells too many origin stories for many, DC likes to throw several heroes into one film and not introduce any of them properly. What already went wrong with Justice League, the first version more so than the second, goes straight to the wall with Black Adam. Both films commit the same mistakes of wanting a lot and implementing little narratively, but where Justice league at least still had the better-known heroes of DC's first series to fall back on, Black Adam has more of the heroes from the bench. This circumstance makes the lack of introduction of the individual characters stand out even more and the completely hectic and let's call it confusing action also doesn't make a good film out of Black Adam. If you had hoped that one of the basic themes of colonialism or western oppression and interference, which resonates from the beginning, would give the film depth, you will unfortunately be disappointed. Shallow would still be too deeperly a term to describe the realisation of the theme in the film. Also, the character of Black Adam, who is probably supposed to be an anti-hero, is also somehow just anti in his portrayal by the Rock. Overall, the film is honestly not even worth the length of this review.
P.s. The love story really seems as if someone said after completion in the writers room: "Fuck we forgot the love story" Then they quickly gave two unimportant characters an unnecessary love story and thus somehow made the characters even more irrelevant. Sounds strange, but that's how it is.
Review by PhilharmonieBlockedParent2022-11-25T21:45:52Z
While Marvel tells too many origin stories for many, DC likes to throw several heroes into one film and not introduce any of them properly. What already went wrong with Justice League, the first version more so than the second, goes straight to the wall with Black Adam. Both films commit the same mistakes of wanting a lot and implementing little narratively, but where Justice league at least still had the better-known heroes of DC's first series to fall back on, Black Adam has more of the heroes from the bench. This circumstance makes the lack of introduction of the individual characters stand out even more and the completely hectic and let's call it confusing action also doesn't make a good film out of Black Adam.
If you had hoped that one of the basic themes of colonialism or western oppression and interference, which resonates from the beginning, would give the film depth, you will unfortunately be disappointed. Shallow would still be too deeperly a term to describe the realisation of the theme in the film. Also, the character of Black Adam, who is probably supposed to be an anti-hero, is also somehow just anti in his portrayal by the Rock.
Overall, the film is honestly not even worth the length of this review.
P.s. The love story really seems as if someone said after completion in the writers room: "Fuck we forgot the love story" Then they quickly gave two unimportant characters an unnecessary love story and thus somehow made the characters even more irrelevant. Sounds strange, but that's how it is.