But Black Adam is surprisingly compelling, both as a reactionary statement against the state of superhero cinema with geopolitical ambitions and a fun expression of all of the things it’s railing against, and if I were a betting man, I genuinely probably would have lost a decent chunk of change on this one.įormerly known as Teth Adam, Rock’s lead was once a slave digging for rare and magical materials in the mines of the kingdom of Kahndaq some five thousand years ago. You can see aspects of the film some were expecting within the final product itself: There’s plenty of failed banter and half-finished CGI strewn throughout (though, admittedly, it looks one thousand times better than anything in Thor: Love and Thunder), and the occasional turn towards a Cameron-style bonding between killing machine and charge is about as clumsily executed as you might expect. Then there’s the creative and financial turmoil that both DC Comics and Warner Bros have endured over the last two or three years in plenty of self-inflicted ways – as a reminder, this is the last tentpole film you’ll see from the studio for the rest of this calendar year – with many pointing to the lack of a stable guiding hand wrist-deep within the DC Extended Universe’s sock puppet. Collet-Serra’s last project, Jungle Cruise, also with the former Rocky Maivia, was genuinely pretty miserable, and you could feel him chafing against the dimensions of the project as outlined by his cage keepers at Disney. It’s a vanity project designed solely by the world’s last-remaining true-blue action draw that has been sitting on a shelf in development hell long enough that The Rock still had hair when he first announced his intentions to bring the character to the screen. Jaume Collet-Serra’s Black Adam has all the makings of a special disaster, the kind of which you’d expect the Critical Dunk Contest backboards (covered with Twitter and Stella Artois sponsorship branding) and racks of helium-inflated balls to be rolled out for the participants in whatever empty arena would even have an event so few people would show up to and pay for.
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