Review of Black Widow (2021) by Lost10 — 09 Jul 2021

I think the shining points of this movie are seeing Scarlett Johansson playing Black Widow once again and the debut of Florence Pugh's Yelena Belova. Seeing from the trailers, the action scenes from the Black Widow movie, we would have expected levels of action like Captain America: The Winter Soldier; the action scenes are fun but most of them feel rushed and ultimately too short.

The story doesn't really give a lot of information about Natasha's backstory and zooms right through it with a grueling, long opening credits and you feel all of the sequences rushing to the finish point.

Our heroes, David Harbour's Red Guardian and Rachel Weisz's Melina Vostokoff were great to see but they were underutilized at the end of the story. O. T. **** character seemed to be important at first, but yet you could remove his scenes from the movie and it wouldn't make a difference.

The antangonists were god awful, two of the worst villains in the MCU to date. If you came to see the movie because of Taskmaster, please don't get too attached to this version of his; you will be disappointed.

The other antagonist felt so mediocre and bland, you wonder if this is really a MCU movie. But all of this said, you can have fun watching this for the first time seeing the chemistry between Scarlett and Florence's characters and their journey, which is the highlight of the movie.

But this movie is not worth a rewatch unless you enjoy and love the Black Widow character.