The 200 Million-Selling Movie That Took Netflix’s #1 Spot Will Make You Pinch Yourself

July 20, 2024 | 22:26

Black Adam may be rated PG-13, meaning it’s intended for ages 13 and up and for unaccompanied minors, but the bulk of it From the movie It can easily target young children.

Dwayne Johnson He can fulfill a 15-year-old dream, he can finally become the superhero he wanted to be since he was a kid and never accepted any other offer from DC, just a dream we never saw on screen.

The combination of DC and Dwayne Johnson, who created his own production company and had a say in the creative part, could not have delivered anything more than a mediocre Black Adam movie, which after a few hours of watching it, I thought could get a 7.5 rating. But as time went on I remembered everything I didn’t like.

I wanted to be lenient with the movie that was uploaded to Netflix and took first place, but even as I write, lenient goes to the mountains, to put the madman in his place.

The €200 million Black Adam movie has a bad script. Not in the plot part, but in the presence of the roles, the characters. If they had chosen 10 random people from outside the studio, the result would have been the same. And because the script is not at all useful to the actors, we ended up seeing Pierce Brosnan as an Atalante.

Fortunately, they managed to keep Dwayne Johnson’s talking points, who usually comes across as good, acceptable and cool in his own productions, but here he’s more boiled in water than spaghetti. He wants so much through the script to show Black Adam’s diversity, and therefore his superiority over other superheroes, that he ignores everything else.

The Black Adam story has many elements that could help lead to something more. I was drawn in from the start by the fictional kingdom of Kandak, in a story set in Egypt and featuring something of a mummy.

The film fails to maintain even one of them. The villain Ismail is the most interesting element, and only in comparison to the rest of the mediocre stage, we see 3-4 action scenes with the option to invest them with a song and nothing more.

The entire cast seems to make no effort to speak their lines, merely reciting and struggling to keep up with the concurrent events and minimal character building. The blatant burst of bad taste comes at the end with Satanopacus’s ascent from the underworld.

If Black Adam were just two hours of action, it would be a 7.5. But it’s not. That wouldn’t even be possible, it would be a logical ranking. It has scenes, more than good ones, where you understand they were there, they weren’t there, and you don’t care much about them.

Let’s cut to the chase, as the Gringos call it. If there was a movie screen, the Black Adam movie that didn’t fall through the holes would be 25-30 minutes long total. The rest would go down the drain.

Of course, the movie isn’t just bad. Director Guillaume Serra has some good execution in his shots and shot the fight scenes to perfection. He also has a good sense of humor in many scenes, and that’s all thanks to the script. That’s all.