Review of Shazam! Fury of the Gods (2023) by Infrarecon — 08 Apr 2023

Uh, this movie suuuuuuucks, I don't usually do intros like this but damn, I expected some funny dialogue and man of steel action but nope, it's pretty redundant. Let's see, the action scenes are not well done except for 1 small scene, the dialogue and characters are pretty boring.

And the plot, the script, and the writing are bad. The only characters I cared about were, pretty much Billy + Shazam(Zachary Levi), Mary, and I guess Freddy even though he was being kicked around by pretty much everyone...the cripple.

This film suffers from too many characters being on screen at the same time. While something like this is possible it is important to use screen time wisely, in the case of this film, they didn't.

I don't want to add spoilers but let me just say they misuse plot armour a lot, there are things in this film that just do not make sense, and don't tell me "but magic".

And finally, something I was waiting to see, god damn Superman to at least help out with the chaos.

Ok Shazam:

VFX: 8/10, nice CGI.

Story and Plot: 3/10, Are they good, are they bad, who am I.

Characters: 5/10, Shazam| Billy, Freddy and Mary, to be honest, I think Mary was the most responsible out of all of them, Billy though is still cool, heroes am I, right?

Action: 3/10, Boring stupid action, He is a god, they are all gods, let him throw them down.

Laugh Factor: 3/10, The only time I was laughing was when I was making fun of the film.

4/10, It's below par, even bad MCU films are better than this, Not Wakanda Forever though that movie sucks more than this one.

James Gunn, Boy do you have a plate to fix with the DC universe, I hope by Superman's Name you know what you are doing.

DC just cannot take a break, but at least the Animation is still top-tier. Maybe perhaps get some of the writers of the DC animations onboard to direct and write, I don't know I'm pretty much done with DC and Marvel. You would have thought that by 2023 standards we would have filmmaking nailed.