2022 · action · adventure · sci-fi
Black Adam
Directed by Jaume Collet-Serra2h 5m2022
Nearly 5,000 years after he was bestowed with the almighty powers of the Egyptian gods—and imprisoned just as quickly—Black Adam is freed from his earthly tomb, ready to unleash his unique form of justice on the modern world.
Our read: Black Adam (2022) reads as a neutral, breathless, inventive action · adventure · sci-fi entry — extreme in intensity, epic-stakes in scope, measured in temperature, ambivalent in outlook.
Neutral, breathless, extreme action / adventure, inventive in texture. Ambivalent, epic, measured.
- kinetic
- intense
- inventive
- epic-stakes
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