Chad L

I’d like to give this one star, but the special effects are pretty decent. However, that’s about all this has going for it. Essentially, “Black Adam” is the DC Universe’s horrible attempt at Deadpool. Yeah, he’s a hero without morals, however his attempts at humor are woefully bad and he’s surrounded by horrible actors. Seriously, I was thinking to myself multiple times, “how did they accept this take?” The passionate speeches are boring and lack any believable enthusiasm. The plot is okay at best and the character development is terrible. Seriously, there’s like no back story to hardly any of the characters and when you add in the bad acting and the sub par attempts at humor, you quickly start wishing most of these characters would take an early exit. Even the attempt at tragedy in the film is laughable since they kill a hero with basically no back story. Apparently he has a magic space helmet that gives him similar powers to Dr Strange and a similar hair style. Only problem is he has zero personality and even looks like he’s smirking when he dies. Rock has been in some good films, but this is just bad. There have been very few superhero films I’ve been disappointed in because I enjoy that genre a lot. But this film looks like a rough rough draft of a decent movie that someone accidentally released before it could be proofed and edited by decent writers and actors.

Good acting and nice effects, but you leave the film feeling underwhelmed by a silly plot and an obvious political agenda that is growing tiresome in recent Disney productions. First the premise is there’s been an underwater city/civilization of once Mayan peoples who fled to the sea due to the evil white colonizers after eating a magic plant. They are led by a super powerful fish man with wings on his feet. Meanwhile, the Wakandans are dealing with their own oppression as white oppressors in nations like America and France secretly try to steal their unique resources. Wakandans refer to them as colonizers…smh. These two ?nations? end up going to battle as Wakanda gets connected to a young teenage black girl prodigy that the USA is trying to exploit in order to find more of Wakandas special resource in the ocean. I question the nations part because both Wakanda and the fish people claim to be world superpowers, but when they face off it looks more like a few ships and a handful of troops. Quite underwhelming as the film builds to this super war. Not only is the war underwhelming, but the new Black Panther’s conflict with the fish god is also a bit ridiculous. She gets gutted by a spear, but finds the will to jump up, win the fight and is walking around like nothing happened afterwards. The story ends with the expected conclusion, the Wakandans and fish people decide to call a truce as they both realize they have the same oppressor who will soon be coming after them again to rob their culture and resources…the white colonizing “surface world.” The film had lots of potential, but it seems budget constraints and political ideologues decided to hijack yet another Disney film. No longer are fans treated with traditional good vs evil films, but are not-so-subtly forced to associate the heroes and villains pushing gender, race and religious agendas which force the audience to associate the good side with whichever social agenda Disney dictates. I really wanted to like this movie and try to just tone out what I figured would be another political push from Disney. But, it’s not easy and the underwhelming plot and strange character development (the young child prodigy moves from being a clueless teen exploited by the USA to flying around in a an Ironman suit in minutes. And theirs strange dramatic flares between main Wakandans that never seem to develop while the fish people receive virtually no development other than their leader’s background of seeing how colonizers whipped and chain his home town. It’s been a severe drop from films like Ironman, Avengers, Dr Strange to what Disney is currently pushing out. I’ll probably stop wasting time on these new releases and maybe the drop in viewership will force Disney to get back to the entertainment business.