DC Comics, Black Adam Movie 30cm Action Figure, Collectible Kids’ Toys for Boys and Girls Ages 3 and Up

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With Johnson's recent praise of co-stars like Pierce Brosnan and the film's trailer dropping, excitement is mounting and it will not be long Black Adam hits theaters this fall. and The Outsiders when he squares off against Black Adam and the JSA – that’s our prediction anyway – when the movie comes out finally in October. Cyclone and her cool nano-bot powers are touched on only briefly, and Atom Smasher is included apparently just to be the butt of various jokes. Sure, Black Adam is more willing to kill people than most other heroes, but given the people he’s killing are all generic, heavily armed bad guys we never really have to explore whether this is, in fact, a moral dilemma.

None of these movies are ever bold enough to let the bad guy win in the end, so it’s all wrapped up nice and tidy.Kenzari’s character and final form possibly draw inspiration from this version created by Judd Winick and Todd Raney that fought The Outsiders. Based on merchandise descriptions leaked several months ago, McFarlane Toys appears to be in charge of Black Adam’s tie-in collectibles and Sabbac certainly looks like a product of creator Todd McFarlane’s sculptors. Hot Toys are thrilled to introduce the new collectible figure from the DX series, the Black Adam Sixth Scale Figure featuring Black Adam based on the movie of the same title. Russian mafioso Ishmael Gregor lusted after the power the entity had so, tracking down the original avatar Timothy Karnes and killing him, performed a ritualistic mass murder to gain the dark magical strength and abilities of the demons Satan, Aym, Belial, Beelzebub, Asmodeus, and Crateis. Nearly 5,000 years after he was bestowed with the powers of the ancient 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.

Black Adam takes out the Big Bad about as easily as the good citizens of Khandaq stomp his mookish minions. A toy reveal shows that the big threat is none other than Sabbac, portrayed by Old Guard star Marwan Kenzari, whom we suspected since this information first started to leak out. Fate is killed, it feels more like a waste of a potentially fascinating character rather than an emotional moment. I found Black Adam mildly entertaining, and I went into it with fairly low expectations but rooting for it to be a success and prove the critics wrong.

I’m grateful the film was only 2 hours long, but even those two hours felt longer than they should have. His and Hawkman’s friendship is something we learn a bit about through exposition, but is fundamentally too shallow for us to really care about.

I want a good story that makes me actually care about the characters and their fates, and on that front Black Adam fails to deliver.

Nearly 5,000 years later, Black Adam is freed from his slumber and finds himself in a world he does not recognize. Judging by what actually transpires in the film, I think the answer to that question is an obvious “No. Because comic book material is so beloved by fans, Dwayne Johnson's attachment to the story of Black Adam and desire to make something for them should serve as a very promising sign.

And hey, I’m totally fine with movies not shoving political messages down our throats, but the absence of that does not a good film make. Pitting Shazam and his goofy humor up against someone with similar powers who has no compunction about killing would have been far more interesting than the bland story here. A virtually invulnerable hero who can’t be stopped even by other powerful heroes sounds good on paper, I guess, but in practice it’s just boring. Sure, it’s not one of DC’s most original villainous origins, but it provides a neat parallel between the villain and Shazam!

The skeletal warriors, however, are completely useless, easily taken down by a rabble of town-folk who Generic Boy rallies to fight using the same symbol as the boy champion from 5,000 years ago (because most modern societies totally cling to 5,000 year-old traditions!