Black Adam Was Almost A Good Film

It’s nearing a week since Hollywood’s newest release; Black Adam came out in cinemas, following the hype train that is Dwayne Johnson’s star power in the entertainment industry.

The hierarchy of power is about to change, was the tagline, with the drumbeats ringing that the movie was on course to change the facet of the DC Universe, and possibly position Black Adam as the cinematic world of DC as its star power.

Well, it very nearly could, considering the character of Black Adam itself has a lot of potentials to build from and stories worth tell than the cliché Hollywood action comedy movie trope of destruction, humor and repeat.

The film quite alright had good characters handed to it on a platter of gold but where the movie falls flat on rests on the fact it was in a rush to introduce Dwayne ‘the Rock’ Johnson and not the world of Black Adam.

The issue of pace of course, forces quite a number of the film’s characters to wrestle for screen time and presence to get audiences endeared to them, thus leaving many of them to instead become plot slaves than persons in a story.

It’s villain, Sabbac is of course, the most underdeveloped character in the story, who could very much have been taken out of the story if it meant actually taking enough time to set the characters, and introduce the actual protagonist, Black Adam.

The story starts out with setting Teth Adam as first some kind of an anti-hero, then a villain of sorts before setting him up as the hero in the minds of its side characters, without exactly showing a development to his story.

In summary, the film felt like a production rushed to introduce an actor into the franchise rather than tell the story of a slave and his fight against his inner demons that puts him at odds with characters around him.

A little space for this film to breathe could have very much made Black Adam a good film but instead it is just an entertaining flick with good characters, which when it comes to the wrestle for screen time, Pierce Brosnan’s Doctor Fate comes out triumphant. Take him out, it is just a dull action flick for 7 year olds.