I wanted to like the movie since I do like Dwayne, he seems like a nice guy, but man, he can't really act, can he...
He's not completely at fault though, the writing department for this movie have done a terrible job, mostly at the same level of the guys who wrote for Iron Fist. The movie lacks structure, dialogue is subpar even for a DC movie, the actors don't even try to do a decent job at portraying their characters. The kid, Amon, especially, has no screen presence at all. I only remember him because 1. I just finished the movie and 2. That's how bad he was.
As a whole, the cast was weak. Pierce Brosnan is old school, he can indeed act, but the director gave him no material to work with, 50% of the time he spends on screen is him touching the Fate helmet, the rest is his CGI double.
Cinematography is non-existent if you ask me, I haven't seen so much CGI and jittery scenes since the Star Wars prequels and compared to this, those are actually good. A lot of cuts, a lot of CGI backgrounds, game cutscene levels of CGI characters. I do not understand why Black Adam and Sabacc weren't made in a more practical fashion, it would've been nice to see something real for once. I swear most of the movie was made in Unreal Engine 4.
And the music.... Wow... Watch the movie on mute and put any playlist you want in the background, you will not miss a thing. Not one piece of sound is designed to fit the scene it plays over and enhance it, ground it in any way. It's just generic crap put togheter by a 9 year old edge lord who thinks Kanye's "Power" ( I'm not calling him Ye, it's stupid ) simply works with anything. If you played Saints Row, I'm sure you remember the plane fight when this song comes on, how incredibly fitting it was and how it hyped you up. Well, in this movie, it's just there because Black Adam is destroying some CGI enemies.
Nothing in this movie is coherent, engaging or entertaining. And they had Dwayne The Rock Johnson in it, a guy who oozes charisma, yet they made sure he never gets to use it. DC seriously needs better writers and directors if they want their superheroes movies to matter, because apart from Wonder Woman and Shazam, they kinda shot their shot and missed.
He's not completely at fault though, the writing department for this movie have done a terrible job, mostly at the same level of the guys who wrote for Iron Fist. The movie lacks structure, dialogue is subpar even for a DC movie, the actors don't even try to do a decent job at portraying their characters. The kid, Amon, especially, has no screen presence at all. I only remember him because 1. I just finished the movie and 2. That's how bad he was.
As a whole, the cast was weak. Pierce Brosnan is old school, he can indeed act, but the director gave him no material to work with, 50% of the time he spends on screen is him touching the Fate helmet, the rest is his CGI double.
Cinematography is non-existent if you ask me, I haven't seen so much CGI and jittery scenes since the Star Wars prequels and compared to this, those are actually good. A lot of cuts, a lot of CGI backgrounds, game cutscene levels of CGI characters. I do not understand why Black Adam and Sabacc weren't made in a more practical fashion, it would've been nice to see something real for once. I swear most of the movie was made in Unreal Engine 4.
And the music.... Wow... Watch the movie on mute and put any playlist you want in the background, you will not miss a thing. Not one piece of sound is designed to fit the scene it plays over and enhance it, ground it in any way. It's just generic crap put togheter by a 9 year old edge lord who thinks Kanye's "Power" ( I'm not calling him Ye, it's stupid ) simply works with anything. If you played Saints Row, I'm sure you remember the plane fight when this song comes on, how incredibly fitting it was and how it hyped you up. Well, in this movie, it's just there because Black Adam is destroying some CGI enemies.
Nothing in this movie is coherent, engaging or entertaining. And they had Dwayne The Rock Johnson in it, a guy who oozes charisma, yet they made sure he never gets to use it. DC seriously needs better writers and directors if they want their superheroes movies to matter, because apart from Wonder Woman and Shazam, they kinda shot their shot and missed.