Black Adam review: DC continues with the duds
After what feels like a lifetime of waiting, Black Adam is here as the latest DCEU attempt at establishing something for the public to take notice of. So, after all this time, was it worth it?The plot is rather simple: Black Adam is a super-powered being given powers in the same way as Shazam and he even uses the “Shazam!” catchphrase to switch between forms.
The story itself is nothing. It’s so utterly uninteresting and ultimately inconsequential that it could be edited out to turn this two-hour movie into a 30-minute YouTube video and that would be more enjoyable. For those who cringe when they see bad child actors on screen prepare to find a good 50 percent of this movie to be embarrassing. This isn’t just the fault of the actor but also the filmmakers who failed him because, aside from the awful dialogue, there are technical issues like bad ADR that hamper things.
Again this movie is two hours long. It could have easily been cut down to a tighter 90 minutes and skipped a lot of the non-essential story and grating characters. Is there some fun stuff to enjoy as the supes beat each other senseless? Sure but there are no real stakes and no one even gets a bloody nose despite being punched through an infinite amount of buildings.
The one-two punch of funny happened about an hour later when the line “no one man should have all that power” from Kanye West’s Power was played thrice in succession as Black Adam casually slaughters a few hundred unnamed, masked goons and causes irreparable damage to the mining infrastructure of an embattled country.
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