BLACK ADAM | REVIEW
With Black Adam, things don't exactly start out well. It all has a Scorpion King vibe, and not only because of Dwayne Johnson. The narration has an oddly heavy echo pattern. The grade is terrible. Regarding the story itself, its inflated feeling of self importance makes everything feel immediately constricting. The mythos is as absurd as the weirdly groundless setting. Middle Eastern location, maybe but not definitely on a different planet, and era that predates the construction of the pyramids. Not that the fashion would lead you to believe it. Eventually, a more exciting adventure will rise above the nonsense, but only in the sense that its forerunner accomplished such a brilliant achievement in shattering expectations. Teth-Adam is Johnson. In the beginning, he is a Kahndaqi slave who is subsequently found to be Shazam's slave. He received superhuman talents from the same Council of Wizards that in 2019 transformed Asher Angel into Zachary Levi. Despite being previously ti