Black Adam, critic. Dwayne Johnson pulls the car

DC is determined to recover the ground that it has ceded to Marvel in recent years within the superhero universe, where it still maintains the honor of having signed the best product of all, the Nolan trilogy, although that was too long ago.

With Black Adam try to shorten distances. A priori he had it all, an actor with a hook, like it or not Dwayne Johnson has become one of the great stars of Hollywood, a secondary of luxury, Pierce Brosnan, and one of the most compelling DC characters from his comics, the villainous Black Adam. Because yes, in the comics Black Adam is one of the bad guys, and one of the most interesting.

Despite all these wicks, Black Adam has not become the film that it could have been because DC is not clear yet if it wants to target its films towards a broader audience, in the Marvel style, or towards a more adult audience. And that is something that is noticeable in the film, on the one hand, Black Adam is killing bad guys right and left without the slightest hint of regret, but on the other the plot is too childish.

two great performances

If something is clear in Black Adam, it is that Dwayne Johnson has come to the DC universe to stay, He seems comfortable in the role of bad hero or good villain, and his sly humor, very much in the style of Schwarzenegger in Terminator, works perfectly. An imposing physique and an interpretation in which hieraticism is the fundamental feature help everything go smoothly. The second great joy is the presence of PPierce Brosnan as Doctor Fate, a magnificent performance that would have deserved a movie of its own within the UCDC, Without a doubt, he could have rivaled Marvel’s Doctor Strange with whom he shares many points: elegance, an ironic sense of humor and two first-rate actors to interpret them.

As for the rest, the writers have made a mess with Hawkman, one of the most complex DC characters that here has been reduced to a cartoon category, with dialogues that border on the ridiculous and action scenes in which he serves as a punching bag for all kinds of friends and enemies. a pity As for the rest of the Justice League America, because the movie serves as a presentation gala for a new DC team, they don’t go far, simply because they don’t take up a lot of footage. Although the special effects work done with Cyclone is appreciated, especially after the destruction we recently saw in Morbius with a similar system.

Special effects

Like any good superhero movie, the special effects have a decisive weight in the set and here is an abuse of them. The first of the confrontations draws attention to its originality, but when the situation is repeated every 15 minutes it loses its grace and even becomes boring, especially since Black Adam is shown as an indestructible and implacable threat, the Zack Snyder-style abuse of slow motion. Another negative point is the construction of the archenemy, Sabbac. A demon that looks too artificial and taken from a Dark Souls cinematic.

History

DC goes politically correct, freely adapting the original comic book story and placing the action in a fictional country very similar to Egypt and that is occupied by some terrible Black Water-style mercenaries. It is curious that the cornerstone on which the argument is based is the moral debate about the limits of power and whether or not a superhero should kill, Black Adam has no doubts here, when we have already seen previous DC movies in which Superman devastates half the city without messing up or questioning anything.

Fun, but not transcendent

With all this, is Black Adam a bad movie? Not at all, in fact It is one of the most entertaining premieres of DC, the ‘spanish’ Jaume Collet-Serra builds a film with rhythm, action, the right dose of humor and the presence of two good actors who dignify the rest. At some points he reminds Spielberg of ‘The Temple of Doom’: the use of jokes in the middle of the fights, the chases by levels, the presence of a kid as a degreasing element, the presence of a cursed relic and the popular rebellion against an evil that comes from beyond. The The film’s problem lies more in its script, of not deciding which audience to choose and of build an excessively Manichaean and childish story.