A team of superheroes called The Justice Society is dispatched to take him down, plus an army of mercenaries with infinite ammo and a council of demons looking to unleash hell. (This time, it's the Crown of Something Or Other.)Īwakening in the present day, Adam is bemused by new-fangled progressive ideas like not melting people into skeletons for looking at him funny. An introductory voice-over fills us in on his past, his powers and, of course, the magical superweapon everyone will be chasing. Story-wise, Johnson plays Teth-Adam, ancient champion of a perennially oppressed (fictional) Middle Eastern nation called Kahndaq. Start to finish (including inevitable post-credits scene and fan-pleasing cameo), Black Adam is a guilty pleasure that isn't even the slightest bit guilty. Introducing a humorously homicidal antihero who puts an irreverent spin on the superhero formula, the film sees Dwayne "The Rock" Johnson playing a rare villain(ish) role and let loose to create carnage with a knowing smirk to camera.įrom the title character's skull-crushing entrance and through a ludicrously violent riff on the super-speed sequences from the X-Men movies, director Jaume Collet-Serra delights in dealing out death and destruction (but y'know, in a fun way). This is peak blockbuster - for better and for worse.Ī box office hit in theaters now, Black Adam is a ton of fun, if you like that sort of thing. Cross the biggest action superstar with the most overblown effects-driven genre and you get Black Adam, a face-melting big-screen spectacular.
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