Black Widow (2021)
Country: US
Technical: col/2.39:1 134m
Director: Cate Shortland
Cast: Scarlett Johansson, Florence Pugh, David Harbour, Rachel Weisz, Ray Winstone
Synopsis:
While the Avengers family languishes, sundered, in the aftermath of Captain America: Civil War, Natascha Romanoff finds herself in hiding in Norway when she is very suddenly drawn into her long lost sister's attempt to counter Russian black ops kingpin Dreykov's global network of Black Widow assassins, each remotely controlled from his computer. As she regains contact with her past and her surrogate family, Natascha must justify her decision to walk out all those years before.
Review:
In between all the location work and bone-crunching combat scenes, there is a heart yearning to get out of this instalment, itself a cheeky vehicle for Johansson's continued ascendancy, nay, sanctification! If pain makes you stronger, it seems to be saying, then peeling back the pain will leave you with a pseudo-family just like yours and mine: a jokey dad, provident mum, and two sisters who just need mutual affirmation. Even past sins can be redeemed. This all works pretty well thanks to Johansson's control over her character's emotional potential, and Pugh's 'Villanelle'-accented darkly humorous turn as 'little sis', both ensuring we care for these characters who otherwise behave like unbreakable toys.
Country: US
Technical: col/2.39:1 134m
Director: Cate Shortland
Cast: Scarlett Johansson, Florence Pugh, David Harbour, Rachel Weisz, Ray Winstone
Synopsis:
While the Avengers family languishes, sundered, in the aftermath of Captain America: Civil War, Natascha Romanoff finds herself in hiding in Norway when she is very suddenly drawn into her long lost sister's attempt to counter Russian black ops kingpin Dreykov's global network of Black Widow assassins, each remotely controlled from his computer. As she regains contact with her past and her surrogate family, Natascha must justify her decision to walk out all those years before.
Review:
In between all the location work and bone-crunching combat scenes, there is a heart yearning to get out of this instalment, itself a cheeky vehicle for Johansson's continued ascendancy, nay, sanctification! If pain makes you stronger, it seems to be saying, then peeling back the pain will leave you with a pseudo-family just like yours and mine: a jokey dad, provident mum, and two sisters who just need mutual affirmation. Even past sins can be redeemed. This all works pretty well thanks to Johansson's control over her character's emotional potential, and Pugh's 'Villanelle'-accented darkly humorous turn as 'little sis', both ensuring we care for these characters who otherwise behave like unbreakable toys.
Country: US
Technical: col/2.39:1 134m
Director: Cate Shortland
Cast: Scarlett Johansson, Florence Pugh, David Harbour, Rachel Weisz, Ray Winstone
Synopsis:
While the Avengers family languishes, sundered, in the aftermath of Captain America: Civil War, Natascha Romanoff finds herself in hiding in Norway when she is very suddenly drawn into her long lost sister's attempt to counter Russian black ops kingpin Dreykov's global network of Black Widow assassins, each remotely controlled from his computer. As she regains contact with her past and her surrogate family, Natascha must justify her decision to walk out all those years before.
Review:
In between all the location work and bone-crunching combat scenes, there is a heart yearning to get out of this instalment, itself a cheeky vehicle for Johansson's continued ascendancy, nay, sanctification! If pain makes you stronger, it seems to be saying, then peeling back the pain will leave you with a pseudo-family just like yours and mine: a jokey dad, provident mum, and two sisters who just need mutual affirmation. Even past sins can be redeemed. This all works pretty well thanks to Johansson's control over her character's emotional potential, and Pugh's 'Villanelle'-accented darkly humorous turn as 'little sis', both ensuring we care for these characters who otherwise behave like unbreakable toys.