Black Widow Review

Many of us Marvel fans waited over a decade for a Black Widow movie, well we finally got one. As promised I wrote 2 reviews; 1 judging it as an independent film and 1 in the context of the MCU. This is the review in regards to the film as a Marvel movie.

Let's start with the very few good things before I tear into this god awful excuse for a Natasha film. It was a different style then most superhero films that we are used to, it gave off a more independent cinematography style and right off the bat, that made this movie more enjoyable.

Aaaaaannnnddddd thats pretty much all the good I have for this movie, so here we go…

The overall reason this movie was so bad was for so many reasons honestly but mostly it was because it wasn’t honest to Natasha’s character or the relationships that she had built within the Avengers. I was the biggest defender of Marvel after Endgame when everyone was screaming that Natasha was fridged, and she wasn’t until Black Widow came out and took away the only argument that saved her from that fridged fate.

What this embarrassment of a film expects you to believe is that Natasha reconnects with her family, finds her sister and then doesn’t mention it to a single one of the Avengers, not Steve, and not Clint….absolute BS. There’s not a single scenario ESPECIALLY after the snap where she doesn’t tell Steve about her sister, or check to see if she’s still alive after the snap.

My biggest issue is that Disney fell into the same trap that they did with Star Wars, The Last Jedi was actually very good, until Rise of Skywalker came out and undid or contradicted the best parts of that film therefore making it retroactively suck….well guess what Endgame???? Endgame was great, until Black Widow came out and opened even more massive, gaping plot holes then there already were. Her sacrifice in Endgame was made worse with this film, not because she had more to give up but because it was made even more clear that the executives at Marvel don’t and never did give a shit about Natasha’s character and used her solo movie as a way to introduce Yelena instead of using the opportunity to deepen Natasha’s character and make us feel better about the fact that this film should have come out in phase 2. And the kicker to that is that the movie would need very few adjustments, it could have been the same nearly scene for scene and still released closer to the beginning of the MCU, and then of course given her the start to her own trilogy. Anyone who thinks Black Widow couldn’t carry her own trilogy has zero understanding of her character.

Now let's discuss the fact that the film was riddled with plot holes for the rest of the MCU as well and not just Infinity War/Endgame.

Fury and Clint never found out that the Red Room was still active after saving Nat? They never confirmed the kill that Nat and Clint thought they had handled?....Mkay

Knowing that the Red Room existed, the Avengers as a team never did anything about it, never tried to bring it down or even try to locate it? So now you’re telling me that not only did the Marvel execs not care about Natasha but apparently no one in the universe did either.

When Natasha was literally running the Avengers after the snap she never made sure Yelena and the other widows were okay, I know I already said it but seriously that was a stupid move.

Okay this isn’t a plot hole, just a wasted opportunity; I got no flashback scenes of the Winter Soldier training the Widows and I hate everyone involved in that decision.

Anyway the movie in the context of the MCU was terrible and I’m upset and bitter. As an origin movie it is ranked 11/11 and overall Marvel movies 23/25.