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‘Black Adam’ Review Roundup: Critics Call Film ‘Unremarkable,’ ‘Super Messy’ and ‘Baffling’

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In his review of the film, TheWrap’s Alonso Duralde wrote, “That task is the capture of an exceedingly powerful ancient metahuman known as Teth Adam (Dwayne Johnson), and despite the movie’s best efforts to jazz up the increasingly predictable superhero genre — this one doesn’t care if he kills people — “Black Adam” feels like both too much and not enough, and none of its narrative gambits are helped by a sludgy visual style that’s either distractingly artificial or dispiritingly gloomy, except when it manages to be both.”Johnson produces and stars in “Black Adam,” which is his live-action entry into the DC universe and reunites him with “Jungle Cruise” director Jaume Collet-Serra.

The film also stars Pierce Brosnan, Sarah Shahi, Noah Centineo and Aldis Hodge as members of the Justice Society.Eric Eisenberg from Cinemablend wrote in his review, “Black Adam is more mediocre than bad, but that’s perhaps worse in a pop culture landscape that will be quick to forget about it as audiences’ attentions drift to the next superhero blockbuster.

Even Dwayne Johnson seems ready to move on, as the biggest hype he has generated for the release has been about it setting the table for the future.

Given the number of years this project was in development, and how it was promoted to shift the balance of power in the DC Universe, it’s disappointing that the end result is so unremarkable.”Gizmodo’s Germain Lussier wrote in his review, “Black Adam is filled with intended emotional threads but most of it gets lost in the explosions.

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