Black Adam Review: 5 Ups & 5 Downs
2. The "Rock" Solid Pacing
In an era where it feels like superhero movies and blockbusters as a whole just keep getting longer, a runtime of around two hours sure is refreshing.
Black Adam clocks in at 124 minutes, and Collet-Serra has crammed a whole lot of movie into this concise length.
While there are certainly beats that feel a bit rushed and the character development lacks massively in places, this is also a movie that doesn't ever really sit still or stick around in one place for too long.
The film breathlessly sprints from one set-piece to the next without much downtime in-between, ensuring few are likely to be left clock-watching or feeling bored, even if this is hardly much of an ambitious movie.
If you're going to serve up a warmed-over, aggressively familiar superhero flick, it's good to at least be pacy about it, and that Black Adam certainly is.