Still the people behind the DCEU persist in trying to compete with Marvel, when all they have as interesting and well-known characters is Superman (potentially) and Batman (always). Wonder Woman doesn't cut the mustard, as even just the painfully reductionist name will tell you. So, unable to fall back on any of these, they have to go with crappy variations on the omnipotent being theme, this time with 5,000-year-old demigod Black Adam, brought back from eternal imprisonment to combat returned forces of evil in yet another made up country, basically a generic mishmash of various Middle Eastern ones.
Marvel have made some absolute disasters along the way, most notoriously Madame Web, but this has a good go at being just as bad. Normally The Rock, as the titular antihero, is decent value for money when playing with his meat-mountain image for comic effect, but any attempt to do so is hopelessly drowned under a two-hour-torrent of extremely boring CGI fight after fight. Nor can Pierce Brosnan, as a wise old magician, save the affair from utter pointlessness.
4/10
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