Black Adam is an ancient Egyptian wizard, whose actual name was Teth Adam. Because he is locked in a tomb by the Gods. Now, after 5000 years, he is finally released. On the contrary, Black Adam is not a superhero. Driven by feelings of revenge, he sees violence as a means to an end. Unlike Superman or Batman, he doesn't look at a human life more or less. Black Adam is an anti-hero. And it's exactly that dark side that Dwayne Johnson finds so appealing.

A new old superhero makes the leap from paper to the silver screen: "Black Adam" has been featured in DC comics since the 1940s and grew into a self-struggling anti-hero with Superman-like powers and maneuvers according to DC's rules of the game.

Director Jaume Collet-Serra, who sometimes tries to deliver a visual imitation of the dark superhero films of Zach Snyder, crams it all into one overflowing history, in which there is also room for a handful of exchangeable new superhero people. And for Marwan Kenzari, not without merit as a fire-breathing demon. Superstar Dwayne Johnson, the street fighter turned Hollywood phenomenon, brings the hero to life. “Of all the superheroes or antiheroes, Black Adam is the most like me.”