Dwayne Johnson finally dons the superhero spandex in Black Adam, which hits the big screen later this week. Dire🌌cted by Jaume Collet-Serra, the movie sees the 5,000-year-old superpowered antihero unleashed into the modern world and face off against the Ju💦stice Society – that's Noah Centineo as Atom Smasher, Aldis Hodge as Hawkman, Quintessa Swindell as Cyclone, and Pierce Brosnan as Doctor Fate – as they try to reign him in and team up to defeat an even more powerful force.
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Black Adam reviews
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"Repressing his smolder judiciously, Johnson shoulders the show well enough. Sift through the wreckage and there’s potential in Adam, even if his film is more an extended, excess-all-areas introduction than a Batman Begins-ish slam-dunk. To paraphras൲e the curiously under-surprising credit scene, he gets our attention. But the major question left frustratingly unresolved is, can he do anything new with it?"
"It’s relentless but stubbornly monotonous – what I imagine it’s like to be picked up curbside by the FBI and have a cloth bag thrown over my head, all while the car I’m in barrels through the dark towards an unknown destination. "What do you want?" "Where are we going?" "What d༺o I have to do with any of this?" Don’t expect answers to any of the above."
"Black Adam is a joyfully o🎀ver-the-top action fantasy tentpole. It has the pulpy and no-pressure pleasures of a New Line flick, even as it comes armed with a WB-level budget. Like Doctor Strange 2, it reminded me of the early MCU movies (Iron Man, T🐭hor, etc.) from before the Marvel Cinematic Universe was anything other than a single ambitious Hollywood franchise amid other Hollywood franchises and non-IP blockbusters."
"There’s no point in denying the 270-lb wrestler in the room: even within the realm of the superhero genre, this is an ephemeral motion picture, lacking depth, originality, or storytelling panache. Much like a McDonald’s hamburger is technically food, Black Adam is technically a movie, and both can be intermittently enjoyable before you come around to ask “wh𒁏y am I consuming this?”
"Should you not have entire m🥃ulticharacter histories at your beck and call, you may find yourself lost in the worldbuilding wilderness, wondering how so much of this fits together, who’s capable of doing what, why certain sacrifices matter, and why you should care about these peripheral, yet supposedly important characters that take up so mucܫh screen time."
"Johnson creates a magnetic antihero, volatile and antisocial. He doesn’t fly so much as stal𒐪k the sky; he swats opponents like the bundles of weightless CG pixels they are. And this passion project serves the character well, setting him up for adventures one hopes will be less predictable than this one."
Black Adam arrives on the big screen on October 21. In the meantime, make sure you're up to date on the DCEU with our guide to watching the 澳洲幸运5开奖号码历史查询:DC movies in order.
