Freed from imprisonment, Black Adam prepares to fight threats and crime with his personal notions of justice, which may not please everyone and may not fit in with modern morality and ethics. Is there a path in the hero’s heart to the possibility of changing his views and accepting the new rules of the game? After all, evil does not slumber.

The main character’s story, compared to what it was in the comics, has been greatly altered to make him more positive, and this has greatly damaged his anti-hero charm. But despite Dwayne “The Rock” Johnson’s poor acting, Black Adam’s image turned out, though not very deep, to be quite whole. However, we love The Rock not for his acting skills (or, rather, the lack thereof), but for his charisma, so Black Adam in his performance does not cause any special complaints. 

Every action of the heroes and villains on screen, every line of dialogue, every forced joke is guessed beforehand. Sometimes at the sacrifice of entertainment and common sense is sacrificed. Of course, the screenwriters need to show the clash between Black Adam and the Justice Society under any pretext, so the heroes, who fly to Kandak with peaceful and diplomatic intentions, upon arrival immediately begin to insult the dangerous alien from the past. 

The fights in the film are not badly staged, though without much ingenuity. The computer graphics at times cause an unbearable desire to cringe. It looks especially bad in the last battle, but by that moment you get so tired of the movie’s excessive dragging that you almost don’t pay any attention to it. 

In spite of all this, the film’s shortcomings pale in the face of the fact that it does give the long-suffering cinematic universe a second wind.  And in the scene after the credits, Superman, played by Henry Cavill, appears, and it seems that most of the audience is more excited about this scene than the rest of the movie.

“Black Adam” deserved all the blame for being a stereotypical superhero action movie without any twist. But if you’re a DC fan, that won’t stop you from watching it, will it?