Hi Folks
Well took my daughter to see Black Widow, a delayed prequel film about a dead MCU character. A film which should have been made about 7 years ago. Especially as most of it is set after Captain America - Civil War, with Black Widow on the run from General Ross and his army.
It would have made more sense and Scarlett Johansson would have had a better film because if it. More would have been at stake and you'd have more attachment to the character, wondering if she'll survive.
The film starts off in 1995 and a young Natasha and her sister are having dinner. Their Dad arrives and urges them to leave, which they do to an old airfield. After a quick chase they fly to Cuba where you realise they were undercover Soviet spys. The girls are sent to The Red Room training camp not wanting to go.
Fast forward to just after Civil war and Natasha's sister Yelena (played by Florence Pugh) is chasing another Black Widow and kills her, as she does she is squirted with red mist which breaks her Red Room programming and makes her normal. She then takes the remaining vials of red mist and sends them to Natasha's safe house.
Long story short, they meet and are pursued by Task Master and other Black Widows as they try to find out where the new Red Room is and break the others programming with the red mist. They enlist the help of their false parents Alexei/Red Guardian (played by David Harbour) and Melina (Rachel Weisz).
Overall - an ok film but the action is over familiar and looks a mash up of old MCU films. It is a bit of a woke film with white males either dumb (Red Guardian) or bad (Ray Winstone) as Dreykov.
An example is Task Master chasing Natasha in a tank veichle which reminded me of Winter Soldier.
A good thing is the eye candy of Scarlett Johansson, Florence Pugh and even Rachel Weiss who has aged well.
I'm hoping the stage 4 films are better. Especially Spider-Man and Doctor Strange. This film felt underwhelming like the Disney series of Wanda-vision, Falcon and Winter Soldier and even first few Loki episodes.
Spoilers - looks like from the post credit scene the Hawkeye show will be mainly following Hawkeyes daughter.
Bels Score - 8/10
My Score - 6/10
You should all check out the YouTube channel Critical Drinker for great reviews, as he's a writer he can tell you more of what works both with this film and others.
Here's the link to his Black Widow review -
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