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2.8 of 5 from 384 ratings
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- Synopsis:
- Nearly 5,000 years after he was bestowed with the almighty powers of the Egyptian gods - and imprisoned just as quickly - Black Adam (Dwayne Johnson) is freed from his earthly tomb, ready to unleash his unique form of justice on the modern world.
- Actors:
- Dwayne Johnson, Aldis Hodge, Pierce Brosnan, Noah Centineo, Sarah Shahi, Quintessa Swindell, Marwan Kenzari, Bodhi Sabongui, Mohammed Amer, James Cusati-Moyer, Jalon Christian, Benjamin Patterson, Odelya Halevi, Uli Latukefu, Jennifer Holland, Henry Winkler, Chaim Jeraffi, Sharon Gee, Stephan Jones, A. Manuel 'Manny' Miranda
- Directors:
- Jaume Collet-Serra
- Producers:
- Beau Flynn, Dany Garcia, Hiram Garcia, Dwayne Johnson
- Writers:
- Adam Sztykiel, Rory Haines, Sohrab Noshirvani, Bill Parker, C.C. Beck, Jack Kirby, Jerry Siegel, Joe Shuster
- Studio:
- Warner
- Genres:
- Action & Adventure, Sci-Fi & Fantasy
- BBFC:
- Release Date:
- 16/01/2023
- Run Time:
- 125 minutes
- Languages:
- English Audio Description Dolby Digital 5.1, English Dolby Atmos, Italian DTS-HD Master Audio 5.1
- Subtitles:
- Danish, English Hard of Hearing, Finnish, Italian Hard of Hearing, Norwegian, Swedish
- Formats:
- Pal
- Aspect Ratio:
- Widescreen 2.40:1
- Colour:
- Colour
- BLU-RAY Regions:
- B
- Bonus:
- The History of 'Black Adam'
- Who Is the Justice Society?
- From Soul to Screen
- Black Adam: A New Type of Action
- Costumes Make the Hero
- And More
- BBFC:
- Release Date:
- 16/01/2023
- Run Time:
- 125 minutes
- Languages:
- Castilian Spanish Dolby Atmos, Castilian Spanish Dolby Digital 5.1, English Audio Description Dolby Digital 5.1, English Dolby Atmos, French Parisian Dolby Atmos, French Parisian Dolby Digital 5.1
- Subtitles:
- Castillian, Dutch, English Hard of Hearing, French Parisian
- DVD Regions:
- Region 2
- Formats:
- Pal
- Aspect Ratio:
- Widescreen 2.40:1
- Colour:
- Colour
- BLU-RAY Regions:
- B
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Reviews (8) of Black Adam
Unadulterated rubbish - Black Adam review by Alphaville
Nothing to see here unless you’re a Marvel/DC fanboy devoid of any critical faculties. Dwayne plays a one-expression ‘flying magic man’ as one character calls him, but most of the time he’s replaced by a cgi avatar to deal with the usual cgi flash-bangs. Neither Dwayne nor even normally reliable director Jaume Coillet-Serra can do anything with this tripe.
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Oh dear ! - Black Adam review by si
Utter garbage..had to turn off the dvd player after 15 minutes of this cringeworthy tripe..utter garbage, had to press the stop button on the dvd remote after 15 cringeworthy minutes of this cringe fest
0 out of 2 members found this review helpful.
Now I Understand - Black Adam review by ARich
I expected more from DC on this one. I wanted dark, I wanted violence. I wanted film with exactly what a character with the power of the gods, dishing out his own justice, deserves.
But we got a commercialised CGI mess.
I now understand why Gunn and Safran have stepped in.
Let's hope they learn from this.
2 stars
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Critic review
Black Adam review by Mark McPherson - Cinema Paradiso
Here comes another anti-hero to the DCEU. The good news is that Black Adam represents a different dynamic than previous superheroes by being entirely driven by revenge and a desire to squash imperialism. The bad news is that he’s trapped inside a PG-13 movie that feels obliged to stick strictly with the superhero formula. The result is one of the DCEU’s passable entries but also is most frustrating for ALMOST being good.
Dwayne Johnson takes on the role of Black Adam which DC Comics fans have been pushing for many years. Well, the wish is granted and Johnson’s acting style fits about as neatly as you’d expect. Playing a fish-out-of-water wizard overlord, he’s an intimidating presence the way he first shows up and lays waste Intergang. After an exciting sequence of punching people at super speeds and zapping people with super electricity, he shows interest in his home of Kahndaq. Now under the control of the high-tech Intergang crime syndicate, Black Adam fights back violently and the occupied populace applauds his rebellion.
Challenging this violence is the Justice Society, an already assembled ensemble that has apparently been around in the DCEU for decades but was never worth bringing up until this point. This is a rocky introduction to how the film introduces the four members of Doctor Fate, Hawkman, Atom Smasher, and Cyclone. The film does little to explain Fate’s possession and manipulation powers, Hawkman’s origins of Egyptian and alien tech, Atom Smasher’s legacy of living up to his family line, or Cyclone’s pathos. More importantly, though, we don’t know how the Justice Society fully operates. This is particularly concerning when it appears that Amanda Waller (Viola Davis) recruits them in addition to her work with Task Force X. How deep does Waller’s Rolodex of heroes and villains go?
After some genuinely thrilling fight scenes and strong special effects, the topic of Black Adam’s violence and his perceptions of colonization leads to a debate with the Justice Society. This could be a great development if the rest of the film concerned Black Adam trying to remove intergang and subvert Waller’s rule, similar to what happened in The Suicide Squad. Sadly, these topics are mostly chucked aside when the third act focuses entirely on the demonic villain Sabbac. He’s a generic bad guy who wants to take over the world and the only way to beat him is to kill him by ripping the crown off his head and tearing him apart.
Some will note that this film feels like the DCEU getting back to reforming its ways by the inclusion of a certain superhero in the post-credit scene. This inclusion, however, is more baffling than exciting. It raises more questions about where the politics of these characters lie and seems more interested in whether or not this character could beat Black Adam. I don’t really care who could defeat him. I’m more interested in how Black Adam would handle Kahndaq in the modern age where American exceptionalism seems to be an increasing issue in the battle of heroes and villains. That might seem like a tall order but it’s something that Black Adam brings up, talks about, and then just kinda leaves that thread hanging.
Black Adam is an ALMOST-good DCEU entry. There are great ideas present and some great thrills thanks to the well-staged fights and the dry wit of Dwayne Johnson dominating this movie. So much of that potential is squandered by this film keeping things too simple and diverting what could’ve been an intriguing development in DC Comics movies to a bog-standard script of compelling action and lacking commentary.