Black Adam

"A superhero movie, but worse."

"There isn’t a single character here that doesn’t feel like a cheap photocopy..."

"Drab..."

"The result is sometimes a mess, but it’s a generally entertaining one."

"Johnson is well placed to realise the superhero movie’s potential as surrealist action comedy."

"Johnson is not the problem with Black Adam... The issue is with everything else happening onscreen around him."

"God help us if this bewildering mess is meant to save the DCU."

"Nicely unruly, naggingly undisciplined..."

"Director Jaume Collet-Serra and the design team do a great job in every department but are let down by a derivative and baggy screenplay..."

"(Black Adam) too often succumbs to the conventions of its genre, but some compelling performances and director Jaume Collet-Serra's ebullient B-movie flourishes prove to be sufficient compensation."

"(A) meaty, feature-length teaser..."

"A movie full of under-cranked, slow-mo action and over-plotted world-building..."