150 Word Review: ‘Black Adam’ (2022)
Can you smell what the DCEU is cooking?
Black Adam is exactly what it seems and nothing more. What is it? Well, it’s Dwayne ‘The Rock’ Johnson deciding it’s time he starred in a superhero movie, and like the man himself, Black Adam is big. It’s big fights and big explosions and big plot holes. But it’s also big dumb fun, which the entire genre has been sorely lacking recently.
Black Adam is about a 5,000-year-old anti-hero brought back to life to save a fictional Middle-Eastern country from mercenaries stealing their resources. Is there poltiical subtext? LOL, sure. Black Adam has Superman’s powers and the Terminator’s attitude. His disregard for (mostly bad guy) human life summons the avenging Justice Society, a quartet of DC Comics B-listers.
As Dr. Fate, Pierce Brosnan is a delightfully debonair sorcerer. Sarah Shahi shines as the mom of The Annoying Kid Hero Who Skateboards. The Rock is The Rock: all heel and swagger.
