Black Adam (2022)
Ah, DC: how dearly you keep on trying to match Marvel's juggernaut and how often you miss the mark... Not that 'Black Adam' is bad, because it isn't. It is alas a bit forgettable. Fun while you are watching (and colourful, oh yes: very colourful), but you will be hard pressed to remember much about it afterwards. Not even Rockin' My Dwayne Johnson saves this one, strangely enough. After DC introduced 'Shazam', they had little choice but to also present one of the better known antiheroes of the same genre in 'Black Adam'. And he is a character that is darker, as he has little qualms in killing people. But they had to turn him into a genuine hero a little too quickly here and it shows. So, prophecy, 5,000 years ago, hero for the country of Khandaq, yadda yadda evil crown. Anyway, the current version of this country is run by an international band of mercenaries called Intergang. Yes, very often comic book names and organisations have stupid/silly na...
