YO! The long-lost theater movie reviews YO is here! Speaking of the last DC work, it was the very popular " New Batman " in March. After March, April, May, June... October, wow 8 months!
" Black Adam " confirmed that Dwayne Johnson starred in Black Adam in 2014, and finally, when the epidemic was delayed and then changed the situation. My long-awaited "Black Adam" is released! What is different from "New Batman" is that "Black Adam" belongs to the DC extended universe DCEU. It has been 123,456 since the last movie "X Task Force: All Staff Assemblies" within the range of the previous DCEU... Wow, it has been nearly 1 year and 3 months.
This time, the easter egg of "Black Adam" lets us know that DC seems to be starting to re-work the DC expansion universe, although it has been doing it for nearly 10 years.
Currently, major platforms of "Black Adam" have already scored. As expected, in terms of professional ratings, the entertainment-oriented films like "Black Adam" can't get any benefits at all. Adhering to the principle that the more you feel, the more brainless it is, the strictest Metacritichitml2 score is only 40 (% point system), and the audience score is 7.4 (10 point system), which means that ordinary audiences are not bad.
Next is IMDB is 7.3 points, and the number of viewers rated is over 10,000.
finally Rotten Tomato . When the movie critic first opened the score, the tomato index was only 54%, which was just a failure in the eyes of professional film critics. The next door " Marvel Girl " received 97% of professional praise.
anyway, let’s take a look at the popcorn index related to us. After the film was released, the popcorn index was 88%, and the professional tomatoes fell to 44%, which is definitely polarized. After that, the popcorn rose to 90%, and now it is about 89%.
From this huge difference, I wonder if I can give you some expected impressions of "Black Adam"?
Yes, "Black Adam" is different from the previous "New Batman" or " Joker ", but it is more like a carnival of audio-visual feast. The film enters the first fighting scene at an extremely fast speed, and then fight scenes one by one until the end of the film.
In order to better enter the comment analysis, let’s first summarize the story of "Black Adam" with a slightly sensible content, which will not affect normal viewing.
Please note that this man is called Dazhuang (physically)!
The story background of "Black Adam" can be traced back to five thousand years ago. There was an ancient kingdom of Kandak in Middle East . The kings there worshipped black magic, so they began to help him forge a crown that could enter the Demon God Realm.
Just as the king was finally created, the long-slave Tes Adam got divine power to transform into Black Adam and destroyed the dynasty. Black Adam also disappeared with the king in that mysterious revenge.
This has become the foundation of the current main timeline background. An organization called the International Gang oppressed and controlled the present Kandak in order to find the crown created by the old king back then.
In this process, the heroine, as an explorer, found the crown and also found the tomb of Black Adam. Under various "coincidences", Black Adam was awakened, and then there was a fight and fighting scene.
The appearance of black Adam attracted the attention of the American Justice Association JSA, so the JSA led by the Hawkman wanted to meet black Adam, needless to say, both sides were fighting and fighting.
Then from the trailer we can also see that the real villain is the demon Shabak from hell.
In short, after watching the trailer, you basically know that the narrative of the film will not give you too many outstanding surprises, but I wonder how many people have done the psychological presets of "New Batman" and "The Joker" to watch "Black Adam" after watching the trailer?
So let’s talk about the action scenes that everyone cares most about.
Simply put, "Black Adam" is a complete entertainment popcorn super cool film. Just beat it and seek the audience's maximum audio-visual and visual stimulation on the big screen.
Many movies about the origin of superheroes are used to shape the first half of the characters to become a superhero, and then integrate with superheroes, grow and transform. Such a template allows us to see the protagonist's mental journey, but at the same time, it also sacrifices the superheroes who can show superheroes as soon as they start. Even at the end of the film, the protagonist truly becomes a superhero.
And the well-known origin of "Black Adam" in these comics is that the awakened Black Adam shows his abilities.
video narrative uses the most formula, the most uninnovative but also the most efficient way. Let us be told in a concise and clear manner, and call me! There are not many exhibitions of literary operas, they are all simple and crude to serve fighting operas.
Of course, the super English type never lacks fighting and fighting. I think the witty part of the film is that in many literary dramas, the film has found ways to integrate into the fighting scenes, and to advance the subsequent plot while fighting. What makes me most interesting is the drama of Black Adam mocking the Eagleman, taking hostages and being handsome, and at the same time, it also makes the plot as far as possible to move forward to a certain extent.
Regarding Black Adam's superpower, the Black Adam's divine power in the comic comes from Ancient Egyptian gods, and comes from the same Eternal Parliament as Shazan before, so in terms of superpower skills, it is almost the same as Shazan.
However, with the support of special effects funds, the display of Black Adam's superpowers in all aspects has risen to several levels, which is also related to the so-called brutal Black Adam people. At the beginning of the film, the scene of massacreing the "International Gang" army showed us all the black Adam's explosive skill indicators.
especially in terms of speed, it follows the DCEU's consistent combination of realistic perspective and slow perspective. The realistic speed perspective can make people think of "Man of Steel", and slow speed can make people recall the Flash.
And slow motion is not an exaggeration. In terms of the proportion of action scenes, I don’t think it’s too much to lose to director Zha. Director Zha’s slow motion is as beautiful as a picture, and it can capture composition and light and shadow more slowly.
"Black Adam"'s slow motion is more pragmatic. What is necessary is to give the audience more what Black Adam does in the slow world in slow motion. This presentation is very similar to the performance of Quick Silver in "X-Men Reversal of the Future ".
especially the scene where Black Adam was just awakened to beat the International Gang, which is the scene of Quick Silver Rescuing Students in the Academy. Black Adam did a lot of things in the slow world.
also captures more details in slow motion on Black Adam's lightning skill.
In addition to these, flying, incompetence, etc. are all standard configurations, but the Eternal Stone element will affect his combat effectiveness... a little bit, at least it doesn't hurt much in the film, which is also the discussion of Black Adam's weaknesses that I will talk about in-depth later. With the support of the mature film industry and the appropriate funding, these visual effects that are visible to the naked eye can be said to be one of the ceilings of super English-type action fighting scenes. Whether it is good or not or not exciting is quite subjective, it feels very pleasant to me to watch.
In fact, these are not enough to make Black Adam a person who feels full of emotions in the movie. I think it is very important that Black Adam is Dwayne Johnson! To be honest, I can't imagine who is more suitable to play Black Adam than Dwayne Johnson!
Family heroes don’t agree, then I can’t do anything about it.
That is why it brings up the problem that the character of Black Adam itself cannot be ignored in the film.
Next, let’s talk about the story and characters of "Black Adam".
video always emphasizes that Black Adam is an anti-hero, but perhaps the film has a new definition of the word anti-hero . Judging from their own "New Batman", Bruce Wayne in the film seems to be more obsessed with darkness and unscrupulous than Black Adam, and has a more anti-hero flavor.
. In the movie "Black Adam", the anti-hero setting is entirely set off by his peers and the villain's comparison, but Black Adam actually ends up being upright and flawless. How to understand the sentence
, we need to give a little spoiler here.
When Black Adam was awakened, he fought against the international gang organization. Black Adam killed people without blinking, but these international gangs had already completed the final endorsement at the beginning of the film. They were warlords who did not care about the life or death of the Kandak people, and they were inhumane. If they died, they deserved the crime. They were just NPCs who had no memory points. They killed more and killed fewer and had no moral kidnapping at all.
so after Black Adam kills an entire international gang army, he doesn't need to take too much reflection and harm his personality. Such a view will continue until the end of the film.
It will easily give everyone an illusion here that compared with Batman , Black Adam will kill people, he is very bad!
BUT, Black Adam killed all bad people who have no face and no memory. I am afraid that everyone will not be able to see it. After Black Adam awakens and escapes, there is another detail to show that Black Adam does not kill the innocent civilian heroine, but saves her.
And on the other side as a set of JSA, it will make Black Adam seem to be a bit bad... illusion, because JSA represents absolute justice, not killing people, peace, and abide by international law and so on.
But paradoxically, even the film itself complained, so when the international gang controlled Kandak for more than ten years, where were the people of JSA? The contradiction between
further weakens Black Adam's existence as an anti-hero.
So after all, from the past to the present, the underlying logic of what Black Adam did is that he is not really hovering on the edge of morality, sin and punishment.
In the scene of Black Adam's past timeline, just when Black Adam's anger and sadness were about to erode reason (that is, the so-called blackening), it was just rightly sealed by the Eternal Parliament.
Wait until Black Adam is awakened, his disconnection with Hyundai and a coincidence that he met a bad person by chance showed Black Adam's violent side, but it just happened to not let him hurt the innocent.
These clever (chicken thieves) avoid Black Adam's so-called "I can kill people", and also give the audience the illusion that Black Adam can really do anything.
But in fact, Black Adam is a great person, and he is more in line with the audience's psychological expectations. He eliminates evil, is full of the same mood, has a sad tragic past, and is not as unkind and rigid as JSA.
Yes, when it comes to JSA, the entire organization is actually a green leaf-like foil in the film. Although JSA is not as classic and well-known as the super-English characters from Justice League, in "Black Adam", even the background and story of the characters are directly mentioned. Even the Atom Smasher and Cyclone have no background stories. They are just two people with superpowers who are directly recruited.
They also fit the position of the supporting role, that is, if removed, the impact on the plot will be zero.
Episode 0: The special effect of cyclones can control the airflow. The extension effect of the color makes me think of not the airflow, but the smell. It feels like she is flowing with a smell. Of course, this smell is the inner fragrance.
The function of Amanda flash is just to tell us that this is the work of DCEU. Let’s imagine which superhero will appear next.
However, the Eagleman and Doctor of Fate are still worth seeing. The Eagleman is the Falcon from the next door home, now it is Captain America, but the Eagleman here is much richer than the Falcon.
actually has a big thing in common, which is that it wants to strive to achieve something in its own way, but the methods and thinking logic used are completely different.
The role of the Hawkman in the film is another extreme of the Black Adam character. The Hawkman has the so-called " moral cleanliness ", believing that those who make mistakes cannot become heroes, and must accept the punishment they deserve.
, and Black Adam makes judgments under the self-balance through his own experience and understanding specific things. Such judgments are closer to the bad and good people presented by the audience, and can make Black Adam approachable rather than arrogant. Of course, there is no problem such as human reflection and moral collision.
In addition, I think the plot is a pity that I failed to use the super hero of Doctor Destiny. Doctor Destiny can have insight into the future. I believe that through this ability, we can also use some unexpected plot reversals.
Although the video did do this, I have predicted the prediction of Doctor Destiny for such an old-fashioned reversal.
Let’s talk about Black Adam’s character. As we all know, Dwayne Johnson’s own image of his screen must be to follow the upright tough guy character, and to always be invincible.
Although Dwayne Johnson brought us a heavyweight performance, as far as we can see, the biggest weakness of Black Adam's character is that it has no weaknesses. We can only peek into his miserable past, but this past revelation is just a stitching of the reason for Black Adam's anger, not the character's growth or turning point, so there is no anti-hero.
However, as I talked about earlier, even though the plot and characters can be polished in a deeper direction, in order to conform to the simple and straightforward positioning of entertainment, the film chose to make bold choices to simplify these concepts and give the audience a clear role motivation and logic, and it is enough to lay out the fighting scenes.
Finally, let’s talk about the development of DCEU and briefly talk about the direction after DCEU. The biggest highlight of the film is the "super" surprise at the end of "Black Adam".
Next is a bigger spoiler, please consider it and watch it.
After defeating Shabak in the final decisive battle, Black Adam became the protector of Kandak and gave the Kandak people real freedom.
And Black Adam is still a threat to the world, so Amanda sent a drone to do a holographic imaging of herself and talked to Black Adam.
So it’s right to say that Amanda’s pay is really expensive. You can’t show your whole body or move. You can only say a few lines to the screen and make a guest appearance.
Amanda then gave Black Adam the condition that Black Adam could not go to prison, but the premise was that he could not leave Kandak, who was Black Adam's prison.
How could Black Adam obey this arrangement and refuse directly? At this time, Amanda threatened that someone would definitely stop you, and this person was not a human.
Black Adam directly bombed the drone and said, come here, at this moment, John Williams' classic Superman BGM, get up!
Henry Cavill version Superman walked into the picture from the smoke. At this time, he was wearing a classic comic-style superman costume. Superman said to Black Adam, we should have a good talk.
After saying that, Black Adam's lips raised, and he talked carefully here, and he couldn't help but talk about it.
Yes! Henry Cavill returns to DCEU! So big Batman is still far away...!
To put it off topic, just when "Black Adam" was first released, Warner DC President Walter Hamada resigned. During his four years in office, his main performance was to keep DCEU stable and stand still, let Director Za, Henry and Daemon say goodbye to DC, and then rely on his own efforts to make himself the biggest real villain of DC.
Now he has resigned successfully and finished scattering flowers.
Then there is another latest news. Warner is indeed developing " Superman Steel Man 2" starring Henry. Although it is only development, it is also good news. However, it is said that Warner is also planning for "Black Superman".
Although DCEU has tricky public relations like the Flash Ezra Miller and the Lady of Neptune Amber Hilder , these seem to have gradually gained new ideas and plans.
No matter what, letting Henry's return back to "Black Adam", indeed brought surprises to old DCEU movie fans. Although the public opinion on "Black Adam"'s reputation and public opinion are uneven, we still can't clearly see the direction that DCEU has determined in the future, but we do see that DCEU has begun to step out of obscurity and work hard to manage its own universe.
Some people say that "Black Adam" is just a return, which did not make DCEU's eyes shine, nor could it see any big ambitions. Perhaps the story background setting is not as closely related as the next door.
But there is always better than there is, and the market for commercial movie is very realistic. I believe that as long as the box office is good enough, it will inevitably give DCEU more capital to expand its cinema universe. At that time, there will be better fund-burning movies, or super-English movies like "New Batman" and "Joker".
At that time, everyone can get the needs.
Looking forward to the release of "Black Adam" in the country as soon as possible! If you like super-English movies and like to seek entertainment excitement in the cinema where films are now deserted, then "Black Adam" is a good choice!
OK! The comments and analysis of "Black Adam" will end here today!
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