In Captain Marvel, I didn’t like the main character, but I thought the movie around her was quite solid.
Black Widow is the exact opposite: I quite liked the two leads, but the movie surrounding them doesn’t really work.
Pros:
- Scarlett Johansson and Florence Pugh are easily the most entertaining part of the film.
- I liked the first act. It feels like Cate Shortland is trying to do an impression of a Jason Bourne movie. It’s fairly humourless, the cinematography is bleak, and the score is intense. It has a tone that no other MCU film has.
- The action (minus the final battle) is fairly well done. As per usual, less editing would’ve made it better, but at least it feels weighty.
Cons:
- The story itself isn’t that interesting. The themes and main mcguffin are oddly similar to Captain Marvel, though it’s not executed as well. The villains also fail to make an impression.
- This movie really loses its identity as it goes along, to the point where it turns more into a generic Marvel movie as it goes on, and eventually a generic action blockbuster by the third act. Everything gets way too big and bloated for its own good.
- Not a fan of the Russian accents, they sound very tacky. Just let everyone speak with a normal American accent, I can look past the fact they’re Russians. Besides, they even had a story based reason to ditch the Russian accents entirely.
- I found David Harbour quite cringeworthy in this.
- The main characters are protected by strong plot armour. Most characters should’ve been killed 3-4 times based on the things that happen during the action scenes. This isn’t even a ‘suspend your disbelief, it’s an action movie’ situation, it gets really ridiculous, to the point where it’s almost Fast and Furious level.
- The pacing is a bit inconsistent, you really feel it slowing down during the second act.
Finally, I want to address that I already find the use of Nirvana songs in movies like these quite distasteful, but the cover that's used during the credits literally sucked all the life out of the song.
4.5/10
Did you all give high ratings to make a point? Half way through the movie I could not keep my eyes open. Seriously... 8.7 / 10 in IMDB. Crazy!
They never should have made this into a "universe".
Overly-complicated long fights that make no sense.
Keanu has 10 lines literally.
The only time he delivers lines with emotion is when he's speaking to Laurence Fishburne or - surprisingly - when he's talking in Russian.
Too many new characters that are there only to be killed / to be forgotten and basically nobody cares about them.
The villain is weak.
Too long, which equals too boring.
I am convinced that people just don't get what a good action movie is these days, not only because of the majority of the comments here, but also most people in my theatre liked it so much. Just because there are long complicated fight scenes, doesn't mean that this is a good action movie.
First John Wick film is a perfection. Second one was also very good. I will rewatch them and pretend that this was never a "universe".
Very slow, very boring, very pretentious, very crap, I would rather sever my leg than sit through another episode.
God's Own Country (a.k.a. Brokeback Farmer, the English version of Brokeback Mountain). A not overly-sentimental romance about a young lad trapped in both his milieu and his sexuality. Top notch performances by the gorgeous Alec Secareanu as the Romanian itinerant worker and Josh O'Connor as the youth in questioning add to the ruddy style of this earthy affair. Director Francis Lee does a masterful job moulding a lush and yet down to earth film.
I was hoping I was going to like this, but I really didn't.
Maybe because I had high hopes due to the cast.
The pace is really slow, the back and forth is dull and the story failed to keep me interested. Will try and see the second and maybe third episodes to see if it improves.
I only watched this movie because I love horror, Japanese culture and it had a good score on iMDB. But DO NOT BE FOOLED! This movie is absolutely cheap, boring, silly, poorly acted and terribly executed
The worst movie, it seems john Wick mashup fast and furious. Now he will be John Toretto Wick.
The best Mexican tentacle alien erotica I've ever seen.
This is a great thriller for my opinion! i know about a very good german remake in 2018 called Don't get out! (Steig nicht aus!) almost 99% identical with this original :-)
Like most of the HBO competition shows, I'd classify this one as "pretty good" but not great. The locations are spectacular if nothing else!
Well, those are not the best rock amateur rock climbers, trust me. Chris Sharma failed to choose diversity instead a guys Who really Climb. The show it is boring, and It is so far from the real rock climbing World, he focus on being woke than rock climbing. He is a terrific rock climber but a terrible director regarding a show, Momoa well, he is the 1 minute Guy on the show. To much drama, Just, Just a little rock climbing. Chris you could show to the world the rock warriors way's instead show big brother lame show. Do not waste your time, better go to a rock climbing gym, and enjoy, maybe one day you will Climb outdoor and enjoy.
