Every fight is quick cuts to hide the stunt-double. None of it was exciting and it's been done better in other marvel movies. The action itself is one of the most disappointing aspects of the film.
However Task Master eventually takes a back seat to the forced family drama and the reveal at the end is predictable. The dinner table scene moves from flat comedy to drama in order to create artificial conflict with the main cast.
Not sure if it was intended to have Yelena be the most interesting character instead of Natasha? The chemistry with between Pugh and Johansson is decent enough, and the initial fight between widow and task master was cool.
BLACKWIND OW MOVIE
As many people are saying Florence Pugh is the highlight of the film though that can be said for every movie she stars in. Not without it's merits Black Widow quickly devolves into Marvel formula checklists. In summary, this is a solid, fun Marvel movie, with a hint we will be seeing more of Black Widow Yelena Belova.īlack Widow is completely forgettable. The scenes with David Harbour, arm wrestling people in a gulag prison, are also very funny. The chemistry between Scarlett Johansson and Florence Pugh is nimble and enjoyable.
Yelena teases Natasha's signature landing move, with one arm extended behind, the other hand on the floor, and legs spread apart, a fighting stance Yelena finds diva-like and pretentious, and is disgusted with herself when performing the same pose. There are the standard wisecracks, as Johansson and Pugh riff on each other. The action set pieces, and fight scenes were good, but no better or worse than your typical Marvel Avenger movie. The two are sisters only in that they grew up as part of a Russian cell, in an Ohio suburb, along with Rachel Weisz as their brilliant scientist mother, and David Harbour, as Red Guardian, Russia's version of Captain America, as the dad. Belova is impulsive where Romanoff is introspective. There are two main Black Widows: Scarlett Johansson's character, and Yelena Belova, played by Florence Pugh. This makes Dreykov a monstrous misogynist, in a movie, directed by a woman, Cate Shortland, which has unmistakable feminist themes. The Black Widow must stop a Russian General called Dreykov, a sort of SPECTRE czar megalomaniac who "rescues" unwanted girls and turns them into super assassins, called widows. There's even a scene in which 007 is playing on TV. Black Widow, though, has a lot in common with James Bond movies. I was expecting a typical, CGI-infused Avenger movie, and it certainly is that. It seems like this movie should have been done and released about five years ago, and it is out of place in the current Marvel Timeline. This movie takes place after Captain America: Civil War, and before the Avengers versus Thanos movies. His entire back-story, character, and everything about TaskMaster is changed, and not for the better. TaskMaster was a very unique and interesting character in the comic books, and he is totally destroyed as a character in this movie. The guy reminded me of Blofeld, and several other SPECTRE leaders from past James Bond movies. The main Russian spy master was a very generic Russian character talking about world domination and power. The story is really odd, as Weisz is the brains of the Russian spy system but she is on a farm doing brain control experiments on pigs.
Rachel Weisz plays the Black Widow's mother, and it is a pretty generic performance. Harbour is mostly around for comedy, but he is a good actor, and makes his role interesting. The comic book version of Red Guardian was totally tough super-soldier, but in the movie he is just a fat has-been, like Thor in the last Avengers Endgame movie. Black Widow is not very interesting, and most of the best lines come from her sister (Florence Pugh), and her father, the Red Guardian (David Harbour). I guess this was all CGI? It was impossible to follow. The action scenes in the dark rooms were really bad, because all the characters are dressed in similar black uniforms, so I had no idea who was doing what most of the time. This was just a knock-off Bourne or James Bond movie, with the Black Widow and her family of spies as the stars.
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