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Starring The Rock, Warner Bros.’ Black Adam — in theaters October 21st — is a big, bombastic reminder of what a messy place the DCEU’s become.
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Black Adam, Warner Bros.’ latest superhero movie based on DC’s comic books, has been in the works ever since the studio first came around on the genuinely inspired idea of casting Dwayne “The Rock” Johnson.
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Though the bulk of Black Adam is set in present-day Kahndaq and follows Teth-Adam as he confusedly tries to understand what became of his nation after he vanished one day in the past.
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The movie also repeatedly flashes back to his life as an ordinary man in order to make you understand what it is that drives him to be the way he is.
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As many superheroes as there are in DC’s catalog of IP, there are only but so many imaginative ways that Hollywood’s developed to bring them and their powers to the big screen.
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The Rock says that Black Adam is the most powerful and unstoppable force on this planet. But then he repeats “on this planet,” with emphasis, and if that’s not enough he also just…winks at the camera.
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It would make all the sense in the world for Teth-Adam to have nothing but fury and thunderbolts for foreign vigilantes coming into his home.
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Black Adam stops short of being that logical, both because Warner Bros. knows how irredeemable it might make the character seem in people’s eyes.
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