Black Widow

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⭐ 5.5/10

(Originally written by kaelwilton)

I’m really glad that Black Widow finally got a solo movie, I just wish that it would’ve been better. It’s not the worst MCU movie (I still think Ragnarok is the worst), but it’s definitely a bottom tier Marvel movie.

I’ll start with the positives: I thought that the acting was all really really good. Scarlett Johansson, Florence Pugh and David Harbour are all really great here. The rest of the actors are fine too. There’s also one moment in the movie that I found genuinely funny, and it actually had me laughing too! I’m sorry to say that those are some of the only positives that I can think of.

I had a lot of issues with this movie. First off, I thought the action scenes were really poorly done. I’m no fan of shaky cam action, and this movie relies on that. I found the action scenes really disorienting and hard to follow, which was incredibly frustrating. The dialogue was pretty bad at times too. The story was also really lacklustre. I feel like we got no new information about Black Widow, and the things that we did learn were irrelevant. I don’t want to go into too many details because I don’t want to spoil anything, but the whole story felt pointless to me. I also think this movie might have the weakest villain in the entire MCU, which is really saying a lot.

I really wanted to like this movie. I’ve really liked Black Widows character in the past, but I just feel like this wasn’t a story worth telling. The character deserved a better movie.


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