Review of Black Widow (2021) by Mineborder — 11 Jul 2021

|6.2| Black Widow is a very good character in the MCU and I think Scarlett Johansson does a great job portraying the character. Black Widow the movie does a great job of showing the past of Black Widow as it should.

So what's bad about the movie? There are many things about the movie I didn't like. Taskmaster, settings of the movie, and most of all the plot/ ending of the movie. Taskmaster, a master assassin is not actually shown as an assassin.

Taskmaster does no killing in the film unless you are talking about when they ram a tank into multiple cars. I'm sure some of the pedestrians died if it was real life. Taskmaster is shown as a feared person in the movie but there isn't anything for the viewer to fear about them.

Sure they can mimic moves others do but that is all we saw they can do. I feel taskmaster was done dirty in this movie. The settings in this movie are relevant to the plot of the movie. There are six main locations in the movie, Ohio, Cuba, Budapest, Prison, Farm, and "Hover Craft".

Ohio and Cuba being part of the past in the movie and the other four being the present. In every location, there is a fight scene and something about family. I felt like I was watching an F&F movie with Vin Diesel with the number of times they mentioned how everyone was a family.

The ending of the movie is what got me, what made me dislike the movie. The movie is set after Captain America: Civil War. The ending sets up for Avengers: Infinity War. We are left with a cliffhanger to know what Black Widow does to get the team back together, which isn't explained in Infinity War.

We are also left with wanting more Black Widow, but unfortunately, if you have already watched Endgame you know that she is dead. I think if this movie came out before the endgame and before infinity war, much of the audience would have liked it more.

Instead, it opens a new plot to the sister and what she is going to do to Hawkeye.