( This is my first movie review on this app so take this review with a grain of sand. With my reviews I don't like going into what the movie was when it came to editing and cinematography but I will touch on that ).
In order for you to understand my thoughts going into the movie I'm going to explain exactly what my expectations where. I am a massive movie and superhero nerd. If you were to ask any of my friends that watch movies they would tell you that one of my top 10 favourite Marvel movies is Captain America "The Winter Solider". While I was searching and looking around youtube and the internet as most people do, I found a certain amount of videos and articles online that had stated that this movie was going to be like Captain America The Winter Solider. After hearing this my expectations for this movie were very positive and I was ecstatic to watch this movie. My sister and I, who also loves to watch Marvel movies decided to give the movie a shot and buy it. I was going into this movie thinking I was going to come out happy and have had a good time.
After the post credit scene which I will get back to, I felt one word, empty. I felt that this movie didn't serve a purpose and that it felt like a lazy attempt to set up an evil avengers storyline. I felt that the movie was your basic Marvel movie, funny scenes, action, suspenseful moments, a good story and great character building. I will break down each of these in paragraphs to explain how I feel about the movie.
When it came to comedy it was your basic comedy, you either laugh at the jokes or know that there was a joke trying to be told but you just blocked it out. I believe there was only one funny scene I laughed out loud at which was when the helicopter crashed ( if you watched the movie you would know ). Overall the comedy was average.
When it came to the action, yikes, what to say about the action. This might be some of the most boring and worst action I have ever scene in a Marvel movie. I feel that movies need to have a purpose for action scenes or at least if a movie has a purpose to the actions scenes then it is better. The action scenes felt like they would just happen because the film would just be boring. After every Marvel movie that I've seen I've always wished that I had helped create those exact scenes. After this movie I felt like even an average Marvel fan would be able to create a better and more creative fight scene. The only fight scene that I would say was somewhat interesting was when Black Widow fought Taskmaster on the flying building as it fell to the ground. Even that scene ended bad as the scene ended with black widow and taskmaster just fighting on the ground for around 30 seconds. Overall the action was terrible.
When it came to suspense I felt nothing. It sucks because you already know how this movie is going to go, none of black widows family is going to die, the main villain will be defeated or die ( not talking about taskmaster ). The suspense wasn't as good of a movie, comparing it to Captain America. Overall didn't feel any suspense in the film.
When it came to the story it was just a basic go there go here, get this and end of movie. Black Widow sadly felt useless in this movie which is funny since its called Black Widow. I felt that the plot was moving and the side characters just moved and pulled Black Widow with them. When it came to the post credit scene I was some what excited as it gets me a hyped for the Hawkeye show. Overall the story was basic.
When it came to character building I honestly believe that if this movie came out before endgame ( which it originally was supposed to ) I would have felt the same same way about Black Widow. This didn't make me like or hate black widow more it just made me say " hey there's Black Widow, she dies in endgame ". This is no disrespect to the character of Black Widow as I feel she is the best and my favourite female marvel hero and Scarlett Johnson has put her heart into this role but at the end of it this doesn't improve on her character. The only good and best character from this film that I loved and everyone else seems to love is Florence Pughs character, she is so great in this movie. She was the only one in the film that actually was and seems like will be an important character. The other side characters are fine at best they serve their purpose to the story and I don't care whether or not they show up again. I do have to say though that David Harbours character was a very entertaining character as his scenes were the only one that either made me laugh or made me want to. The villain of the movie, Dreykov, is the worst and most basic superhero villain of all time. Take a guess what his goal is, did you say it was to take over the world well..., OF COURSE ITS TAKE OVER THE WORLD WHAT ELSE WOULD IT BE, YOU THINK IT WOULD ACTUALLY BE AN INTERESTING AND HEARTBREAKING MOTIVATION, NO. THIS LOSER OF A VILLAIN JUST FELT LONELY AND DECODED HE WANTED TO TAKE OVER THE WORLD, WHEN HE DIED I LAUGHED OUT LOUD AND IT WASN'T EVEN SUPPOSED TO BE FUNNY IT WAS JUST SO DUMB THAT I NEEDED TO LAUGH. When it came to the actual villain everyone wanted to see, Taskmaster, it was disappointing. I don't wanna get in a massive rant like people are about Taskmaster but I just felt that she wasn't threatening and she was just there to make the movie have more action scenes. Overall the character building is mediocre.
Overall this movie felt disappointing even though my expectations weren't the best, I feel that if this movie was cancelled I wouldn't even care. Is it worth the 40 dollars I payed no. If you are going into this movie just wanting to watch and have a silly good time then yes its worth it but for a marvel movie it goes beside Captain Marvel as an average super hero movie ( and I haven't even finished Captain Marvel ).
My score for this movie is a solid 5 out of 10.
In order for you to understand my thoughts going into the movie I'm going to explain exactly what my expectations where. I am a massive movie and superhero nerd. If you were to ask any of my friends that watch movies they would tell you that one of my top 10 favourite Marvel movies is Captain America "The Winter Solider". While I was searching and looking around youtube and the internet as most people do, I found a certain amount of videos and articles online that had stated that this movie was going to be like Captain America The Winter Solider. After hearing this my expectations for this movie were very positive and I was ecstatic to watch this movie. My sister and I, who also loves to watch Marvel movies decided to give the movie a shot and buy it. I was going into this movie thinking I was going to come out happy and have had a good time.
After the post credit scene which I will get back to, I felt one word, empty. I felt that this movie didn't serve a purpose and that it felt like a lazy attempt to set up an evil avengers storyline. I felt that the movie was your basic Marvel movie, funny scenes, action, suspenseful moments, a good story and great character building. I will break down each of these in paragraphs to explain how I feel about the movie.
When it came to comedy it was your basic comedy, you either laugh at the jokes or know that there was a joke trying to be told but you just blocked it out. I believe there was only one funny scene I laughed out loud at which was when the helicopter crashed ( if you watched the movie you would know ). Overall the comedy was average.
When it came to the action, yikes, what to say about the action. This might be some of the most boring and worst action I have ever scene in a Marvel movie. I feel that movies need to have a purpose for action scenes or at least if a movie has a purpose to the actions scenes then it is better. The action scenes felt like they would just happen because the film would just be boring. After every Marvel movie that I've seen I've always wished that I had helped create those exact scenes. After this movie I felt like even an average Marvel fan would be able to create a better and more creative fight scene. The only fight scene that I would say was somewhat interesting was when Black Widow fought Taskmaster on the flying building as it fell to the ground. Even that scene ended bad as the scene ended with black widow and taskmaster just fighting on the ground for around 30 seconds. Overall the action was terrible.
When it came to suspense I felt nothing. It sucks because you already know how this movie is going to go, none of black widows family is going to die, the main villain will be defeated or die ( not talking about taskmaster ). The suspense wasn't as good of a movie, comparing it to Captain America. Overall didn't feel any suspense in the film.
When it came to the story it was just a basic go there go here, get this and end of movie. Black Widow sadly felt useless in this movie which is funny since its called Black Widow. I felt that the plot was moving and the side characters just moved and pulled Black Widow with them. When it came to the post credit scene I was some what excited as it gets me a hyped for the Hawkeye show. Overall the story was basic.
When it came to character building I honestly believe that if this movie came out before endgame ( which it originally was supposed to ) I would have felt the same same way about Black Widow. This didn't make me like or hate black widow more it just made me say " hey there's Black Widow, she dies in endgame ". This is no disrespect to the character of Black Widow as I feel she is the best and my favourite female marvel hero and Scarlett Johnson has put her heart into this role but at the end of it this doesn't improve on her character. The only good and best character from this film that I loved and everyone else seems to love is Florence Pughs character, she is so great in this movie. She was the only one in the film that actually was and seems like will be an important character. The other side characters are fine at best they serve their purpose to the story and I don't care whether or not they show up again. I do have to say though that David Harbours character was a very entertaining character as his scenes were the only one that either made me laugh or made me want to. The villain of the movie, Dreykov, is the worst and most basic superhero villain of all time. Take a guess what his goal is, did you say it was to take over the world well..., OF COURSE ITS TAKE OVER THE WORLD WHAT ELSE WOULD IT BE, YOU THINK IT WOULD ACTUALLY BE AN INTERESTING AND HEARTBREAKING MOTIVATION, NO. THIS LOSER OF A VILLAIN JUST FELT LONELY AND DECODED HE WANTED TO TAKE OVER THE WORLD, WHEN HE DIED I LAUGHED OUT LOUD AND IT WASN'T EVEN SUPPOSED TO BE FUNNY IT WAS JUST SO DUMB THAT I NEEDED TO LAUGH. When it came to the actual villain everyone wanted to see, Taskmaster, it was disappointing. I don't wanna get in a massive rant like people are about Taskmaster but I just felt that she wasn't threatening and she was just there to make the movie have more action scenes. Overall the character building is mediocre.
Overall this movie felt disappointing even though my expectations weren't the best, I feel that if this movie was cancelled I wouldn't even care. Is it worth the 40 dollars I payed no. If you are going into this movie just wanting to watch and have a silly good time then yes its worth it but for a marvel movie it goes beside Captain Marvel as an average super hero movie ( and I haven't even finished Captain Marvel ).
My score for this movie is a solid 5 out of 10.
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