Hey! Long time no see everyone! It's Dan here and today I'll be reviewing the movie, Black Adam

Sorry If I haven't been on for a minute, got a new job so working two jobs ATM so hopefully after I leave one, I'll have more time for reviews again. With that being said, lets get into Black Adam.

This is a movie that's been in limbo for a decade in a half and factors such as covid and poor management did not help. But after 15 years since its announcement, it finally came to the big screen. That's thanks partly to the star of the movie, Dwayne "The Rock" Johnson. He pushed for this movie to happen for years and all that pushing paid off so I gotta give him credit where credits due.

The cast here did a good job for the most part, though I do have some critiques about the acting and a couple of the characters themselves. The acting is done almost in a rapid fire pace meaning they talk fast at times and barely gives people a chance to process any information without missing the next part like they're speed reading the scripts and other times it feels like overacting where some scenes are over the top and don't feel right. Johnson is perfect for Black Adam (far more than his Krypto role), Pierce Brosnan as Doctor Fate was my favorite and he is honestly a close second, Aldis Hodge as Hawkman was pretty good too even though I felt at times he was a bit over the top himself but that honestly fits with Hawkman's character so I give it a pass. my real complaints in the characters are with Quintessa Swindell as Cyclone and Noah Centineo as Atom Smasher who honestly served little to no purpose in the movie. They were either the comedic relief characters or the generic teens/young adults in love with each other. They honestly felt more like side characters, they made Isis and her son Amon feel more crucial to the plot than they did. There's also cameos to look out for during and after the movie just sayin.

I will say that the plot is structured like any other superhero movie, however, its a structure that adheres to the Anti-hero story. This movie is the opposite of the movie SHAZAM! (which isn't a bad thing, I liked SHAZAM!), that movie was more light hearted and wholesome at times being a fun superhero movie. I know of Black Adams origins from the old comics and how he was basically a warrior chosen to be the wizards champion but he became corrupt with power and the wizard banished him for 5,000 years only for Captain Marvel to confront him and ultimately beat him. Though I like the origin they went with in the movie which is more align with the recent revisions of the character. I'm not spoiling anything but you can look up his revised origins on your own time to get an idea. They also brought in the good vs evil tropes and threw that up in the air. It was well executed bringing up that there are different goods, evils and neutrals even. Everyone's methods are different, but in the end they all have the same goals.

As I mentioned earlier, the characters speak at a fast pace and even though this is a 2 hour movie, the pacing can be fast and again barely lets me soak in what's happening. Other than that, I had no issue with the plot and thought it was great and different from all the other comic book movies as of late. There are a couple things I wish they incorporated from the comics into the film such as the fact that Teth-Adam (Black Adams real name) is 5,000 years old, therefore if he said Shazam, he would revert to normal and age rapidly in the process. The movie was done well enough but I still wouldn't consider it perfect. They have slow-Mo effects to show how fast Black Adam is and most of the time its badass, but then other times it can be funny looking which isn't too bad but you know it is what it is.

Overall, this is a refreshing comic book movie where its not a generic superhero movie or some god entity movie that's just boring like the Eternals. I'm glad Johnson fought long and hard for this movie and I feel it was worth the wait. A shame they likely wont connect the Captain Marvel and Black Adam movies together in a super fight anytime soon (maybe later who knows) but for what it is, its enjoyable and a fun action packed time.

Rating the movie, I'm giving it:

7/10

Its a fun anti-hero action movie, but I definitely see which areas it falls short in. Either way, I still recommend giving it a watch. That's about it, I'll hopefully have more time soon to make more reviews, I actually have a game review in the works and will get that done by hopefully next month.

See ya!