And, look, if you want to make an argument, well, historically, the character of Black Adam is stoic and isn’t going to be delivering nonstop one-liners, well, I would counter that once Dwayne Johnson is cast as the lead – something he himself really pushed for – then there has to be a little leeway to reinvent a character that most people don’t know a lot about anyway.Īll due respect to whatever unique and illustrious history Black Adam may have developed since his DC Comics debut in 1945, but the lifeless spectacle that director Jaume Collet-Serra - who made some nifty thrillers before “Jungle Cruise” reduced him to the John Ford of Rawson Marshall Thurbers - has cobbled together for the character’s big screen origin story is so exhaustingly derivative of other superhero movies that the ancient Egyptian antihero might as well not have any history at all.įor a movie Dwayne Johnson vigorously hyped as the catalyst for change in the “hierarchy of the DCU,” Black Adam unfortunately resembles large chunks of what came before: A brooding, weightless CG punch-a-thon, shot with the same grimy visual style of previous Snyderverse entries in the DCEU. You can see what the critics are saying about Black Adam below:įor the life of me I will never understand why anyone would make a superhero movie with, perhaps, the most charismatic action star working today and decide, hey, what if we took away all that charisma? It’s truly baffling.
Unfortunately, based on the initial reviews, his trademark charisma is buried beneath a seemingly misguided attempt to make him yet another gritty, stoic antihero.
Or just DC Universe? Like the Black Adam movie, it’s all getting very confusing over there.ĭespite taking a beating in the reviews, ( Black Adam currently sits at 55% on Rotten Tomatoes, a slight uptick from its debut on Tuesday evening) the film is still looking at a sizable box office haul thanks to The Rock’s star power. In stark contrast to the positively glowing social media reactions, film critics are not feeling The Rock finally making his long-awaited entrance into the DC Extended Universe. The first reviews for Black Adam are thundering in just a few days before its release, and well, they’re not pretty.
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