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Message: [QUOTE="HuskyHawk, post: 4422552, member: 1414"] [B]Black Adam[/B]. Wife wanted to go to the movies. So, the Rock stars as Teth Adam (new name comes at the end) an ancient hero given powers by the "council of wizards" (Shazam backstory). Sarah Shahi is the lovely leading lady/mom/researcher. It starts with a ten minute backstory that could have been a movie. This is what DC does wrong over and over. Cut to today and evil corpo types are controlling some country that may be the Middle East or may be North Africa (like a DC Wakanda). Teth Adam is released by the researcher, wipes the floor with people, and the Justice Society is called in. Mistake two here. I watched most of the crappy DC movies, so I know who "Waller" is. Most people don't and it isn't explained. Nor that Hawkman keeps being reincarnated forever. Aldis Hodge is ok an overly angry Hawkman, who needs a few beers. Pierce Brosnan is dashing as Dr. Fate (who is kind of Dr. Strange). Quintessa Swindell is Cylcone, new hero and is [I]wow[/I] pretty in this. Some dude is "Atom Smasher" the dorkiest superhero ever. I think they were going for Peter Parker teen angst and missed wildly. Anyway, Justice Society fight Adam, lose. Eventually talk Adam down from his anger (which they finally explain). Then worse guy shows up, and they need Adam to put him down. There are several good lines, and chuckles, it's not entirely unenjoyable, but it's probably 3 movies compressed and pieced together so that none of it makes sense as a single story. If you ever sat through Zach Snyder's incredibly long director cut of [I]Justice League[/I] (I did) it stands out how much better he made it by making it 4 freaking hours long. You see just how much backstory is cut (an hour and a half). DC does this over and over again. This movie relies on backstory from that, and from [I]Shazam [/I](which is probably the most fun DC movie). They just do a terrible job of connecting the dots. Somebody over there just doesn't get it. [/QUOTE]

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