Finally «Black Widow»: initially announced for release in the spring of 2020, the expected Marvel film is now ready to see the darkness of the theaters after several postponements, due to the Covid-19 pandemic.
It’s now been two years since the previous Marvel Cinematic Universe feature, “Spider-Man: Far From Home”, which followed the huge success of “Avengers: Endgame”.
Set after what happened in “Captain America: Civil War”, “Black Widow” can be defined as much a film that tells the events left unresolved from previous films, as well as a spin-off totally focused on the character of Natasha Romanoff, played naturally by Scarlett Johansson. If in the films that have seen them as protagonists, the Avengers have often been defined as a real “family”, in this new work the screenplay hits the key several times to reinforce this concept, with the protagonist returning to her origins. , towards his past blood ties.
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A spectacular film
The first notable element of the film is the spectacular yield, the result of both the excellent pace of an adrenaline-pumping montage and the successful staging of Australian director Cate Shortland, a not-too-well-known name that represents a good bet for Marvel. espionage, “Black Widow” will be able to amuse fans of the franchise, tying the threads of the past (finally we discover what that famous mission in Budapest, mentioned in the previous films, represented) and also connecting to the future, with the presence of a new character ( Yelena Belova, played by Florence Pugh) who will soon return in an upcoming Marvel Universe series.
Too bad that the psychological insights into the protagonist and supporting actors are less developed and interesting than those of other similar products, so much so as to make the human ties of the film a little too obvious, even in the dialogues, unfortunately already felt and crude. however above all the action side and from this point of life «Black Widow» is an almost flawless product, which despite the more than two hours duration manages to keep the attention and involvement high until the end. Remember that the film will be screened in theaters and on Disney + with VIP access.
Judgment night forever
Speaking of franchises, this week a new chapter in the saga of “Judgment Night” arrives in cinemas: it is the fifth film that has as its theme the “Vent”, a night in which in the United States there are no rules and any kind of violence can be practiced. In this case, however, the members of an underground movement think of removing any time limit to the “Vent”, no longer satisfied with a single night a year to be able to practice any kind of brutality.