CINEMA
BLACK ADAM
Holding out for an antihero
►RELEASED OUT NOW! 12A | 125 minutes
►Director Jaume Collet-Serra
►Cast Dwayne Johnson, Aldis Hodge, Noah Centineo, Sarah Shahi, Marwan Kenzari, Pierce Brosnan
→Black Adam could be a
watershed moment for the DCEU. Dwayne Johnson certainly wants it to be a watershed moment for the DCEU. He’s been tweeting about how the movie is a launch pad for a new phase of the comic company’s big-screen endeavours, apparently unaware (or maybe not) that using Marvel-associated jargon like “phase” is tantamount to trolling the DC faithful.
So when, at one point in the movie, Black Adam blasts a gaping hole through a Superman poster, you’d be forgiven for thinking this was Johnson and his co-conspirators saying, “Out with the old…”. But actually, Black Adam is as much a product of the DCEU movies that have gone before it as it is an attempt to give the franchise a full-throttle new lease of life. And not just in the overt continuity nods it gives to Shazam! and the Suicide Squad movies; there’s still plenty of Snyderverse DNA in here too. Yep, it’s slo-mo-a-go-go!