THB #241: Two Review Friday - 1. Black Adam

This week’s two new wide release openers couldn’t be more different, aside from relying heavily on a movie star/stars. They are much needed high-profile releases after a two month run of under-movied movie theaters, which has some lovely underdog stories, but was one more step in endangering the future of theaters.

Sadly, both films under-deliver on their promise.

I find it a remarkable thing to make a movie that is hysterically relentless in extreme action, yet somehow, someway, boring as hell. And this is what is achieved with Black Adam.

Let’s start with the title/character name. “Adam” is consistent. The “Black” part, not so much. In fact, it is a point of conversation throughout the film. Meaningless, pointless conversation. But it’s not just that the conversation is confusing and poorly written… it is wildly unnecessary and actually slows the movie down. I like a good call back as much as the next guy, but this movie doesn’t seem to get that we already got the idea before it retu…