It's amazing how much DC and Marvel rip each other off. If you didn't already know, DC is in shambles due to the WB/Discovery mess, and Marvel is an over-bloated powerhouse making some very questionable choices lately, but still... DC strives to emulate their success with some super cliche output. Dwayne Johnson promised that his Black Adam movie would be a game changer. Is it?

Black Panther^Adam is about a fictional African country that needs a hero with "Black" in the title, just to make sure that audiences know this is a movie about black power. The Rock has always been more tan than black, so he wouldn't fit in with the classical tribal African crowd, so it's more about Egypt and the middle east. He needs to reclaim the kingdom from some assholes who want to use CGI to destroy everything or whatever, but he's also an asshole. How can assholes be heroes?

This movie comes complete with your strong women archetype, the annoying child sidekick, some unfunny comic relief side character, and of course... the superhero teamup. Falcon^Hawkman, Storm^Cyclone, Ant-Man^{Atom Smasher}, and Doctor Strange^{Doctor Fate} are the good guys, here to stop the other protagonist Black Adam from killing assholes because they want "justice" and whatnot. Yeah, it's another one of those good-guys versus good-guys movies, until they unite against a common threat at the end.

God, this movie is so formulaic. The stupid kid is even trying to make things more so by telling Black Shazam how to use catchphrases and whatnot. The plots of these movies are all the same. You could put any superhero in someone's place and have the same turnout. And the villains are so one-dimensional too. Everything about this movie is a cliche.


It wasn't all bad, though. The Rock needed to put on a cape eventually, and he's pretty jacked. Plus, you have Pierce Brosnan as the sorcerer with the silly helmet, but all the other characters are generic and completely forgettable.

I hear they put a LOT of money into this movie and likely wont be seeing much if any profit. If you make the same movie over and over again, people will lose interest in the brand. It makes perfect sense why WB is going bankrupt when they output this shit.

Also, Henry Cavill shows up in the post-credits scene. Not that anyone really cares about more of that invincible asshole...