Her world. Her secrets. Her legacy.
Natasha Romanoff, also known as Black Widow, confronts the darker parts of her ledger when a dangerous conspiracy with ties to her past arises. Pursued by a force that will stop at nothing to bring her down, Natasha must deal with her history as a spy and the broken relationships left in her wake long before she became an Avenger.
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Classical in form, contemporary, resolved and earnest.
- classical in formformally daring
- contemporarynostalgic
- resolvedopen-ended
- earnestironic
- gravecomic
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- mel_non TMDB · Aug 20218/10
Honestly, if Black Widow opened Marvel’s Phase 4, I would have been even more impressed. However, after seeing the deep dives into characters that had been on the sidelines for years, this movie felt very surface level of the complexity of Natasha Romanoff. She was taken as a child to learn how to be an assassin, she had to sacrifice her morals to leave her past behind, she basically remained an assassin for a different organization that turned out to be run by similarly bad people as those she left, and she is now on the run from the government that once hailed her a hero because she didn’t fall in line. Oh, and she is reconnecting with her past fake family that gave her and Yelena back to the Red Room as soon as the mission was over. The trauma this character endured would’ve been better explored as a mini series, rather than a movie that’s trying to simultaneously remind us of where Natasha was five years ago and also trying not to acknowledge that Natasha has no risk posed to her in this movie because we know she lives on past these events. However, very excited to see where Yelena goes in the future.
Read the whole review on TMDB - Isi Pahumon TMDB · Jul 20212/10
Subpar Bond that believes it has emotional stakes isn't exactly a very winning formula. Far too much bad MCU banter to go with something that wants to be grounded and quite frankly none of the actors are quite adapt at those sitcomy whedonisms that these movies made mainstream (Pugh in particular is terrible at those bits). Some of the mid section action is better than average as far as those movies goes but anything with Taskmasker is very bad and the big end is terrible. Winstone villain made me miss when people like Lonsdale and Lee made lousy Moore Bond plots half watchable. The major limitation is that far too much of the emotional beats depend on what characters talk about their time together when they were a pretend family and altough Johansson and Pugh have good chemistry and Weisz and Harbour do as good job as possible under the circunstances of selling their regrets, there just isn't enough downtime between plot needs to anything of it truly land. I can get what Shortland was hoping to import into one of those but little actually works even with the benefit of a far more standalone movie than most of them. Also, strange how after a decade of postponing giving Johansson he
Read the whole review on TMDB - RADIO1'S MR. MOVIE!-MAD AMI 🌠on TMDB · Jul 202110/10
**This Is A Thrilling , Beautiful & VERY , VERY , VERY FUNNY Journey . . . BUT ALAS 😢 . . . It Will Of Course, -{ _INEVITABLY_ }- Be A " Short-Lived " One For S.J⚘. Welcome To The Age Of The Super🦸♀️ ANACHRONISTIC , Er , " Prequel "** A "Good, Old Fashioned" **-{ _B I G_ }-** Screen Full Length Review . ____________________________________________________ Yelena Belova : { about Natasha Rommanoff.. and in -JEST- } " ... You're such a _Poser_❗" ⬜⬜⬜⬜ ____________________________________________________ **1. " I Absolutely, Positively Loved It " :** And I'm going to say that right off the bat. For what it's worth, I actually had to go see Black Widow, ( 'B.W' for short ), -twice- as I wasn't able to catch the beginning the first time around . . & ended up appreciating it -{ So }- much more the second time ; because, being a person with a difficult past myself . . the -Superb- , Intricate, ( and often super - Hilarious 🤣🤣🤣 - ) drama between the lead characters -{ Really }- hit home for me. So much so . . . That inasmuch as ( - I - ) was concerned atleast, just about the -{ Only }- flaw with this film for me, if any, was the altogether "glaring" fact that it is now all but -Certai
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Cast
- Scarlett JohanssonNatasha Romanoff / Black Widow
- Florence PughYelena Belova
- Rachel WeiszMelina
- David HarbourAlexei
- Ray WinstoneDreykov
- Ever AndersonYoung Natasha
- Violet McGrawYoung Yelena
- O-T FagbenleMason
- William HurtSecretary Ross
- Olga KurylenkoAntonia / Taskmaster
Crew
- Cate ShortlandDirector
- Eric PearsonScreenplay
- Gabriel BeristainDirector of Photography
- Lorne BalfeOriginal Music Composer
- Matthew SchmidtEditor
- Leigh Folsom BoydEditor
- Kevin FeigeProducer
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