SPOILER REVIEW! Black Adam

a huge comic book superhero movie fan. I think the genre, though it's starting to get a little bit just repetitive. So I was looking to Black Adam to revive d C and help them where they've really needed somebody to come up and step up to the plate to be their new savior, and I thought that was going to be the Rock. So going into this movie, I had very high expectations, and I think that's what greatly influenced

my rating of giving it a two point five. It was an entertaining movie, but I was looking for some more substance here, and I really thought I was going to get that from the Rock in this movie. I really thought I was going to get that from the character of Black Adam, and I thought this would change the trajectory for d C, which is historically just not made the best decisions when it comes to their superhero

origin stories. And the more I talk about this movie with friends and family and with you guys, I maybe didn't make that completely clear in my first review. Is that's what I held so much against it is the expectations going in. I think this is still an enjoyable

superhero movie. I think kids will probably enjoy it more than thirty year old adults to go on and on about superhero movies, and there are some moments where this movie shine, but overall, it just didn't leave me with that excited feeling that I normally get from superhero movies.

So let's get into more of the details about Black Adom, which the movie is the origin story of Adam, who later gets called Black Adam at the end of the movie, and it's his introduction into the d C universe, which is always kind of struggled with balancing a darker character like Black Adam with bringing in some of the fun elements.

And that is one of the main things that I did not enjoy about this movie, where it takes place is Black Adam gets woken up and then Amanda Waller played by Viola Davis sends out the Justice Society to recapture him and put him into his self for eternity. But then they realize Black Adam ain't going down so easy, and it starts with that battle, and then you have this other villain who appears named Sabak, and he is this villain who draws his power from these six Demons

of Hell. So there's this struggle of him trying to get the crown so he can get all these powers. And then you have in the middle of that the origin story of Black at Him and how he got

his powers. Another major thing that made me not enjoy this origin story is DC themselves ruined so many things going into this movie that even I felt we were doing my normal review because there was things mentioned in the trailer that were supposed to be turning points and plot twists inside the movie that I was like, Okay, I'm gonna play this from the trailer because they ruined

it themselves, so they lost me there a bit. And this is the eleventh movie in the d C EU, and in this movie they introduced a whole slate of new characters, and my favorite one out of all them was Doctor Fate played by Pierce Brason and who became my favorite character throughout the entire movie. I wanted to hear more about his origin story, see more of his powers,

and they killed him off. I just thought that was such a bad move to make when you finally have this cool character, one that looks visually amazing, and Pierce bras and then just did a really great job kind of carrying a lot of that supporting role in this movie. He was the standout performance, I felt like, and they killed off his character, and in doing that, they actually gave Doctor Fate what I believe to be the more epic moment in this entire movie. Him sacrificing himself and

try to defeat him. I thought was the coolest part of the entire movie and the coolest thing done by anybody in any fighting situation in this that I felt like that took away from what Black Adam was supposed to be. And that's a problem because throughout this entire movie, the Rock isn't his normal self. And I'm a fan of the Rock. He is very enthusiastic, He has a lot of charisma to him, and he brings that into his movie roles. So if I would have had just that,

I would have enjoyed that. But we didn't even get the trademark Dwayne Johnson in this movie, and I think he kind of battled with some of the acting involved in this. Black Adam is a more serious character that's supposed to have some debt. He's supposed to have his backstory that makes him the way he is, and that doesn't really get conveyed from the Rocks performance in this.

A lot of the times he is just they're floating, staring off into the distant nothing, and I can't pick up on any of his energy throughout this movie that makes me want to care about his character or care about what he's doing. I just didn't buy it. And that was a rare thing for me from the Rock, who is just this larger than life person built like a superhero for crying out loud, and he just fumbled on the performance in this And I think in order for him to succeed in this role, they should have

made Black Adam a darker character. They should have got rid of all the attempts at comedy in this movie. Which really felt like them trying to be like Marvel. It didn't really work here. When it came to Black Adam trying out these catchphrases as he kills his enemies, it felt entirely cheesy, and it was really hard to believe that somebody who who had been asleep that long and is now living in this modern world. He doesn't

really question a whole lot of it. He's just like, Hey, this isn't the home I'm used to, but then just quickly adapts to everything else, quickly adapted to the language, and somehow has developed a somewhat sense of humor in all of this, and doesn't really ask questions when it comes to the posters in his room with all the other superheroes, and it kind of glosses over the fact. Even though there are some mentions of Shazam in the comic books, Shazam and Black Adam don't like each other.

Black Adam is the joker type villain to Shazam, and I think a lot of the direction they took in this movie, and the reason it took so long to

be made, was because the Rock had some demands. He essentially wanted to be a character that is the most powerful person in d C, or at least equally comparable to Superman, and he demanded that, and he the entire reason that Superman is in the post credit scene, and now that Henry cavill is coming back to play Superman allegedly, he's talked about it in interviews, and other people inside

of Warner Brothers have mentioned it as well. But he wasn't going to come back unless him and Superman could have that screen time and unless his character could be a threat to Superman instead of a threat to Shazam like he's supposed to be. And I get it. I don't always believe that the movies have to follow exactly how it is in the comic books, but I just think it didn't really set that up like it should

have been. And the best part out of this entire movie was that post credit scene, whenever everything is said and done, Black Adam is there talking to Viola Davis, and Superman appears and Superman looks like the best on screen version he's ever looked, very classic Superman with the curl in his hair, and the suit looks amazing, And that part of the entire movie got me pretty hype. But if the post credit scene is my favorite scene out of the entire movie, and my other second favorite

scene is from a supporting character. I don't think the movie did its job, And when it came to the ending, it was so generic that after Pierce Brast's character dies in this and then Black Adam restores his powers, he comes back to fight the bad guy who it's just this c g I bad looking devil, which, out of all of the c g I in this movie, I

thought it was actually pretty good. I just don't really like it when you get to that final battle and you're just fighting the c g I bad guy who kind of comes out of nowhere and never really feels like a threat. So whenever the Rock defeats him in this movie, you don't really care, And it's like, why didn't you do that a long time ago? If you had the ability to rip somebody in half, why weren't

you doing that back or later in the movie. And when it came to just the entire feeling this movie gave me, it feels like it's a movie that should have came out back in two thousand and seven, back originally when the Rocks signed on to do this movie, like there is a good movie in there, it's just not this cut. Maybe it got lost in editing. Maybe it got lost with the changes, maybe with the demands trying to be made for the rock and what he

wanted this character to be. Too many cooks in the kitchen. The fight scenes were pretty good. There was some good action going on in this movie. The dialogue is really where it lost me. I think, out of all the superhero movies I've seen recently, probably the worst dialogue in a very long time. And the supporting cast again just

wasn't there. And I think the best example of me not enjoying any of the supporting cast is I found the kid on the skateboard to be very annoying, and I don't know disrespect to the kid actor in this movie, but I don't know what his purpose was in the entire movie. And then and there were a couple of things that made me crazy at the end of the movie.

Is whenever this character who hasn't really done much throughout the entire movie somehow now rallies the entire city to fight back against these zombies that come out of nowhere. I hate the zombies that come out of nowhere. For no reason, and then this kid gives the weakest speech ever in a movie, and somehow now the city is united. And it reminded me of Halloween Kills whenever the entire city of Haddonfield gets all riled up and wants to

go fight Michael Myers. Now, that's exactly what this movie did with the people in this city. It just created this weird, out of nowhere dynamic from the crowd mob mentality and then just kind of went away. So when it comes down to it, this movie I still believe was mediocre at best. And the sad thing about that is I don't think that's going to change for d C and out. If they can get away with a movie like this to do still pretty well at the box office, they can keep the rock happy and sign

them on to do another movie. And overall, in the long run, if this movie does pretty well for them, I think they're like, Okay, this is the level we need. This is all we need to do to appease both sides of the fandoms and the only glimmer of hope that I really see now, even though I didn't love this movie, I do feel like d C is building towards something now. I want to see another solo Man

of Steel movie. I want to see this quote unquote epic battle between Black Adam and Superman and maybe, just maybe they will learn from their mistakes with Batman versus Superman. I still hope they bring shah Zam into the mix on this franchise, because that's really what it should have been the entire time. And I know the Rock has really also celebrated the fan of this movie, which is great, but I hope he does look a little bit at some of the criticism he got surrounding this role and

maybe takes a different approach when playing the character. Again. All I think this character needs is a little bit more depth. He needs to react a little bit more with some facial expressions or just something to give across the essence of the character and just make um somebody to root for even though he is an anti hero. I think they should find a way to bring back Dr Fate, even though he died. And I think if they make another Black Audam movie, stay away from some

of the old DC tropes. Too much of this exposition trying to character build the flashbacks which make the entire plot feel just kind of disjointed, and just get over some of those other DC tropes of making it look like a two thousand's met music video. We can get rid of some of the sound effects from two thousand and seven, and as long as they don't put that kid in any other movie, I'll give Black Adam another chance. And that'll do it for my spoiler edition of my

Black Adam review. I'll talk to you again on Monday, which you have an interview coming up with David Silverman. He is the director of movies like Monsters, Inc. And one of my favorite movies of all time, The Simpsons Movie. He is an animator who has been with the Simpsons from the very early days. I'm talking Tracy Ullman show back in the eighties, and we're going to break down the fifteenth anniversary of the Simpsons movie, talk about his time at Pixar, and me being a super mega Simpsons fan.

This is going to be one of my favorite things I've ever got to do on this podcast. So excited for you to hear that. And until next time, go out and watch good movies and I'll talk to you later.