Black Widow Movie Review

Black Widow Movie Review

Do Not Watch

I went and saw the new Marvel film the other day, Black Widow with some friends of mine. This movie sucks.

For the synopsis I'm just going to copy the IMDB: "Natasha Romanoff aka Black Widow confronts the darker parts of her ledger when a dangerous conspiracy with ties to her past arises. Pursued by a force that will stop at nothing to bring her down, Natasha must deal with her history as a spy and the broken relationships left in her wake long before she became an Avenger."

Black Widow is boring. The actors have no chemistry, it's the wrong genre, and by golly the ending is stupid. I mean, how can you screw up this bad? You must be trying.

The best part of Black Widow is the opening, then it goes downhill from there. You get the typical Marvel comedy in this film, but there's one joke that is solid cringe. It's done by Natasha's sister, and it should have been cut from the script.

I almost cannot describe the amount of boredom I had while watching this movie. I almost nodded off at one point. The acting is stale and the cast doesn't look comfortable with each other. For a movie essentially about a trained assassin, there's a lot of big action fights and explosions. The smaller fights would be more impactful.

I thought this would go more in the vain of a spy thriller with a Marvel twist. But they ditch the effort and go generic. I mean, they did take a whole 11 days to write the movie.

One of the villains is just nuked in the end. I won't say who, but they build up a solid motivation for hating Natasha only to destroy it in seconds. They really had the beginnings of an interesting villain arc, but they threw it in the trash.

I'm done watching this franchise. I don't have plans to continue watching future installments. Black Widow was one of the few Marvel films I was looking forward too, but I can't do this anymore.

final score: 2/5

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