I've said on many occasions I had zero interest in a Black Widow movie. In the first place she makes much more sense as a interstitial character gluing the MCU together. In the second place her story is over. What is the point of this?
I've also said that I've been wrong in so many occasions I'd be delighted to be wrong again here. For the most part I was. This is a movie that should have been made ages ago and it's a solid MCU film as good as any of the others. It does better than a lot of them in some ways. It doesn't throw in unnecessary love interests, it doesn't end in a giant CGI battle against anything much less a CGI bigger better version of herself.
Taskmaster is an interesting villain. They've flipped his character a lot which is kind of a shame because I think the mercenary that trains henchmen would fit rather nicely in the MCU and this movie in particular..
The final sequence involves a falling airship but having rewatched it I'm still unclear why the entire airship was exploding. The area was only losing a single engine, even our smart character acknowledged it was functionally a controlled descent. I can believe you can take down an airship. I can't buy the whole thing collapses with a SINGLE engine blowing up. Commercial airplanes won't self destruct with a single engine failure.
Review by wolfkinBlockedParent2021-07-10T02:17:55Z— updated 2021-11-07T00:03:50Z
I've said on many occasions I had zero interest in a Black Widow movie. In the first place she makes much more sense as a interstitial character gluing the MCU together. In the second place her story is over. What is the point of this?
I've also said that I've been wrong in so many occasions I'd be delighted to be wrong again here. For the most part I was. This is a movie that should have been made ages ago and it's a solid MCU film as good as any of the others. It does better than a lot of them in some ways. It doesn't throw in unnecessary love interests, it doesn't end in a giant CGI battle against anything much less a CGI bigger better version of herself.
Taskmaster is an interesting villain. They've flipped his character a lot which is kind of a shame because I think the mercenary that trains henchmen would fit rather nicely in the MCU and this movie in particular..
The final sequence involves a falling airship but having rewatched it I'm still unclear why the entire airship was exploding. The area was only losing a single engine, even our smart character acknowledged it was functionally a controlled descent. I can believe you can take down an airship. I can't buy the whole thing collapses with a SINGLE engine blowing up. Commercial airplanes won't self destruct with a single engine failure.