#BLACK WIDOW COMING BACK TO LIFE MOVIE#
The initial action sequences unfold with a Bourne-like energy that eventually gets relinquished in favor of more classic Marvel blandness, but the movie comes alive whenever Pugh is on screen. Trying to prevent it from getting into the wrong hands, she sends it to her "sister" Natasha-they are not related by blood-which reunites them at a safe house in Budapest where they fight one another until they realize they have to work together, ultimately bringing Melina and Alexei into their plot. Yelena is still working as a Widow and has come into the possession of the movie's MacGuffin, a package of vials containing an antidote to the mind control technology Dreykov has been using to keep his army of highly trained fighters under his thumb. The story picks back up after the events of Captain America: Civil War when Natasha is on the run from the US government. When her fake parents, Melina (Rachel Weisz) and Alexei (David Harbour), are discovered, they drag Natasha and Yelena back to Russia where the girls are immediately captured by Ray Winstone's mastermind Dreykov-whose motives beyond general evil are vague-and put into assassin training camp. With a story by Ned Benson and WandaVision's Jac Schaeffer and a screenplay by Eric Pearson, it establishes that Natasha spent her early years in the US posing as the child of "illegal" Russian spies, a la The Americans.
Whereas hours of material had been spent explaining the motivations of various men, she was a blank slate.īlack Widow attempts to offer a corrective to her lack of development. Seemingly the most prominent woman in the franchise had little to no interiority. But for as often as Natasha appeared in the MCU, she also became an example of how the massive property had failed its female characters.
Johansson swung into Iron Man 2with long curly locks and a skin-tight catsuit and was immediately, and now infamously, described as a potential "sexual harassment lawsuit." She got more screen time in 2012's The Avengers, where the villain Loki dissed her by way of her anatomy as a "mewling quim," and from then on was a company player in nearly every team-up. When it comes to Black Widow herself, Black Widow is too little, too late. When Pugh is on screen, the sometimes slick, sometimes clunky movie comes alive, just proving that, in over a decade, Johanasson never really figured out what makes her assassin tick. Black Widow, directed by Cate Shortland, zaps back in the now overly confusing MCU timeline to give Natasha a solo adventure that succeeds more as an introduction to her successor, Florence Pugh's Yelena, than it does as any sort of ode to the original Black Widow herself. Black Widow, is finally the subject of her very own Marvel movie. After nine movies and one tragic death, Scarlett Johansson's Natasha Romanoff, a.k.a.
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