The Rock's 'Black Adam' is an 'exhaustingly derivative,' 'color-by-numbers' DC Comics superhero movie, critics say
latest entrant into the DC Extended Universe.
Unlike his traditional superhero counterparts — in this film it's the Justice Society, not the Justice League — Black Adam is not averse to the use of deadly force.Kristy Puchko, Mashable "In their rush to 'meet the team,' the screenwriters ramble out more hasty exposition that's difficult to grasp amid the cross-cutting of so many introductions and quirky cameos ," she said. "'Black Adam' is in such a hurry to pitch this batch of C-list heroes into their battle with the protagonist, that your head might be spinning.""'Black Adam' isn't bad," said Mark Kennedy in his review of the film for the Associated Press.
For Alonso Duralde of The Wrap "Black Adam" felt like "both too much and not enough," a film where the "narrative gambits are helped by a sludgy visual style that's either distractingly artificial or dispiritingly gloomy, except when it manages to be both." "'Black Adam' so desperately wants to be a darker and gristlier version of the same hamburger that audiences have been served over and over again for the last 15 years, but Johnson — who's also a producer on the film, and a part-time architect of this cinematic universe in addition to our own — can't abide the idea of doing something that might leave even one audience member behind," said David Ehrlich in his review of the film.
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