Dwayne “The Rock”Johnson spent 15+ years creating his film about a superhero. “Black Adam”This superhero film finally opens in theatres Friday. According to reviews, critics liked the movie. “underwhelming,” “super messy” “baffling.”
In his review of the film, ’s Alonso Duralde wrote, “That task is the capture of an exceedingly powerful ancient metahuman known as Teth Adam (Dwayne Johnson), and despite the movie’s best efforts to jazz up the increasingly predictable superhero genre — this one doesn’t care if he kills people — “Black Adam” feels like both too much and not enough, and none of its narrative gambits are helped by a sludgy visual style that’s either distractingly artificial or dispiritingly gloomy, except when it manages to be both.”
Johnson stars and produces “Black Adam,”which is his live action entry into DC Universe and reunites with him “Jungle Cruise”Jaume Collett-Serra is the director. As members of the Justice Society, Pierce Brosnan and Sarah Shahi star in the film. Aldis Hodge also stars in the film.
Cinemablend – Eric EisenbergHe wrote, “Black Adam is more mediocre than bad, but that’s perhaps worse in a pop culture landscape that will be quick to forget about it as audiences’ attentions drift to the next superhero blockbuster. Even Dwayne Johnson seems ready to move on, as the biggest hype he has generated for the release has been about it setting the table for the future. Given the number of years this project was in development, and how it was promoted to shift the balance of power in the DC Universe, it’s disappointing that the end result is so unremarkable.”
Gizmodo’s Germain Lussier wrote in his review, “Black Adam is filled with intended emotional threads but most of it gets lost in the explosions. Everything is rushed, half-explained, glossed over, and as a result, a movie that’s generally fun to watch ends up feeling super messy.”
Johnson is known for being charming and very charismatic. Uproxx’s Mike Ryan wrote in his review, “For 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.”
Critic David Enrlich of IndieWireIn his review, he wrote: “The question that “Black Adam” poses is a simple one: What happens when Hollywood’s most risk-averse movie star collides with Hollywood’s most risk-averse movie genre? Dwayne has the answer. “The Rock” Johnson’s depressingly inevitable (and inevitably depressing) foray into the superhero-industrial complex is, of course, even simpler: Exactly what you’d expect. Only worse.”
CNN’s Brian LowryIn his review, he wrote: “There’s simply no getting around the clunkiness of the dialogue, or the sense “Black Adam” overestimates the character’s appeal. Even a sequence during the closing credits hinting at a more dynamic follow-up doesn’t do as much as it should to fuel an appetite for an encore.”
“Black Adam”Opening in theatres Oct. 21