Where most men his age have a fold of fat across their gut, Johnson has one along the back of his skull. Johnson’s massive bulk, planet-sized head and sly gift for deadpan humour all make him a great superhero. He is the once and future king of the mysterious made-up Middle Eastern land of Kahndaq, and he is now sensationally reborn into a modern world where ordinary Kahndaqians are longing for someone to liberate them from the neocolonial corporate-military complex now imposing its tyrannical control. Dwayne Johnson made his name in Spandex in the WWE wrestling ring now he has slipped back into stretchy fabric as Black Adam, the ambiguous mythic villain-hero of the DC Extended Universe, the 5,000-year-old former slave who reached for glory. Finally – the one movie star born to be a superhero has stepped in front of the greenscreen.
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