It's a superhero movie. I understand it's supposed to be fairly grounded and all that, but Nat was even lucky to make it out alive in either Taskmaster encounter too
At least it’s in a universe with Ego, Thanos and Hulk. The FF are or were grounded up until the cyborg and transformer bike in Hobbs and Shaw.
Yeah I’m willing to buy she’s peak human levels of durability. But she’s still human. In Avengers, you saw her and Hawkeye getting tired and wincing in pain. She barely did that here. Even after flipping over a car multiple times, glass everywhere, and no airbags, she didn’t even have a cut on her.
I thought they would of had Natasha come back with her being a Ballerina like the comics but she mostly brushed it off.Yelena roasting Natasha for her "fight posing" were the best parts.
Clint told the other Avengers and I'm sure word got out about what went down.
I don't think it's release date should be a negative on the movie but I do agree that at the very least Black Widow should have been the first female led movie in the MCU
My main pet peeve of the movie besides Nat and Clint's Budapest mission flashbacks being glossed over (really would have liked to see more of that apart from a ten second scene with a voice cameo from Renner) and the abrupt ending that didn't go into detail as to how Nat escaped Ross's men was that there wasn't an explanation as to how Nat is capable of possessing a lot of the more superhuman skills that she has. I really thought that they'd explore the avenue of her and the other Widows being injected with some form of super soldier serum while in the Red Room but I guess they're going with the "she's just a really skilled human" like Hawkeye, but he hasn't done nearly as many extraordinary stunts as Natasha.
I said this in another thread too but while watching Black Widow I kept thinking that it should have come out five years ago. 2016 really could have been when Marvel started releasing 3 movies per year. You could have had Civil War that May, Doctor Strange in July or August, and Black Widow that November. As it is, whenever I do an MCU marathon I usually watch them by order of release but obviously apart from the post-credits scene, it seems odd to watch Black Widow after Infinity War and Endgame. That being said though, had it been released in 2016 it's highly unlikely that Florence Pugh and David Harbour would be in it and since I thought they were among the strongest aspects of the movie, especially Pugh, better late than never, I guess.
I mean, Ross doesn't exactly have the best track record with holding on to captured Avengers...
Dreykov definitely struck me as a sort of Putin-type: Ex-Soviet who never really stopped doing his thing, just rebranded for the new world. His thing seemed pretty straight-forward to me - He was running an international mercenary black ops group. But he definitely was a Soviet "lost-causer." The whole base in the sky thing implies he's at least on good relations with the current Russian government, but I didn't get the vibe it was still an official government op.
Absolutely. She should have gotten her own franchise ages ago. To which we can only say: **** Ike Perlmutter.
I think possibly something was in the vest Yelena gave her to escape. They were always talking about the pockets and how they can hold a lot. Maybe she slipped a tool to get out of handcuffs. I don't think she would sell them out and then the following scene mention she has two families. She wanted the other widows to be freed by Yelena and Melina was going to make more of the cure.
Red Skull called her "Daughter of Ivan" in Endgame but we never heard Dreykov's first name in this movie. This part may have been a miss in the movie due to Red Guardian being Aleksei no Ivan in any part of the name. It is a comic nod I guess but plot hole in the movies.
No, Red Skull was referring to Natasha's birth father. Not Alexei and not Dreykov.
But didn't Red Skull call Gamora the daughter of Thanos? Why does birth parent matter for Natasha, but not Gamora? Why doesn't he call her a daughter of Alexei or something?
Though Perlmutter's not the one who had her killed off in Endgame, preventing this character from ever having a franchise, now. That's what I care about more, at this point. Because she's dead, in the service of a male character.
