Movie Review: Was Black Widow Worth The Longest Wait For A New Marvel Movie?

so i saw a post on um reddit this morning that 
said it had been like 738 i think it said days  
since we had a new marvel movie release 
and so that is how long i have waited to  
see a new marvel movie in the cinemas for the 
first time welcome to my review of black widow
welcome back or if you are new here welcome my 
name is katrina usually there’s books behind me  
because i make bookish content here on this 
channel usually twice a week and then movie  
reviews just like this one here at the weekend um 
i will leave my movie reviews playlist linked up  
above in case you are looking for something other 
than black widow um to hear my thoughts on looking  
for something else to watch in the cinemas this 
week there’s quite a few new releases that are  
still playing that i have reviews of so check out 
that playlist if you’re not here for black widow  
um but yes i am i’m a marvel fan in case you 
can’t tell it took me a little while to get there  
but then i had the joy of watching them back 
to back in imax for their like 10th anniversary  
that’s a whole story um and in that playlist 
you’ll see movie review videos ignore the lack  
of books behind me that is going to be explained 
coming up in another video very soon so hopefully  
it’s not too echoey because

it’s so echoey
without the books but we’re trying we’re
trying to make it not too echoey so yes i
just got back hence why it’s dark outside
from seeing black widow in dolby tonight first
showing um the they had a five o’clock showing
in dolby and a five o’clock showing in regular
imax had to wait till six so that’s why i went
with dolby um i probably will end up trying
to watch this one in imax as well because i
do like to do the comparison with the new
releases i did the same within the heights
i will leave that video linked up above but yes
this is um the first movie release of phase four
i think um i don’t know if spider-man far
from home was phase four if it was the end of
phase three i feel like i’ve seen conflicting
views on that one but yes this is phase four
of the male cinematic universe and this film in
the timeline falls well it falls between civil war
and infinity war but then again some sources have
said that it actually takes place during captain
america civil war so i did watch that to prepare
for watching this so i was kind of in that right
phase because this is natasha romanoff’s origin
story um so it is on the long side it’s not as
long as um the last two avengers movies but it
is two hours and 13 minutes and um this movie
this review will be spoiler free but there is
an end credit scene i’m not going to say what it
is but i’m going to let you know that so that you
make sure you stay until the end i mean you pretty
much know with a marvel movie that there is going
to be an end credits scene but just to confirm
for you that is an end credit scene and the end
credit scene is well worth staying for no spoilers
though um so yeah so this is her origin story um
however i almost feel like we didn’t get enough
of the black widow and the natasha that we kind
of know and love from the avengers but then
looking at where it fits in the timeline there’s
a reason for that i would say there’s definitely
a reason why she’s kind of in the headspace that
she’s in and why she’s not the natasha that we
got to see in infinity war and end game um but
yeah i feel like i would have liked more of her
i mean from the trailers and the posters you know
that this film also stars florence pew and rachel
vice as two other black widows um as part of the
the family that um natasha was involved in before
she found her avengers family and um some of it
is a lot more sort of about them i would say that
this is almost as much about um florence pugh’s
character elena as it is about natasha um and but
part of me is like well i was expecting more
just the black widow we know however i’m not
mad about the fact that we’ve got more florence
pew in here because i’m a big fan of hers i like
just fell in love with her acting in fighting with
my family i went to see that film multiple times
mostly because of her and then loved her in little
women you know love her instagram stories but i
really really enjoyed what she did with this
and the writing in this film when we actually
have you know a bit of back and forth between
characters a bit more dialogue there’s those sort
of scenes where there’s more talking and not just
kicking and fighting and jumping and flying and
all the rest of the things that make marvel marvel
um the writing i would say is actually pretty good
there were moments where the whole cinema was
laughing me included and we know sometimes i
don’t always laugh at the same time as the rest
of the entire cinema but the whole cinema was
laughing i was laughing and then there were other
points where i feel like their sense of humor
was carried across a little bit more because
florence pugh has most of the her character has
most of the kind of like punchline witty remarks
sarcastic comments here there and everywhere
and i think it works really well because she’s got
that british sense of humor so even though she is
playing somebody who is not british in this film
and i know that she doesn’t live full time in the
uk she’s still got that british sense of humor
and that kind of like british comical timing
and so it worked really well with her and
that was something that was definitely
a winner for me um some of the sort of action
scenes i think if you were watching them um
just on a regular screen or if you were watching
them too close to a big screen tv or your seat
in the cinema was too close i think you would
find them quite like assaulting on the senses
obviously the loud parts are very loud i saw it
in dolby so it was loud and it was a full cinema
can we just like take a moment to recognize
that i was in a full cinema there was someone
right next to me there was someone right next to
them there was somebody in every seat in my row
there was somebody in every seat in the road
behind me there was somebody in every seat in the
room in front of me it was weird um but i mean i
was okay because i had my marvel dress to match my
marvel mask so that was fine um but yeah it was a
full cinema and so it was loud you know they turn
up that volume i imagine that if when i go and see
this in imax i will also think that it’s very loud
but then the sort of action scenes in particular
were quite chaotic and so just be warned ahead of
time it is a bit of an assault on the senses with
the loudness and the chaoticness of the action
scenes i did sometimes find those action scenes
i did start to almost not switch off but kind
of like lose interest a little bit because you
went from having these like funny dialogue scenes
to having these action scenes and it was there was
a quite a stark contrast between the two and i was
you know enjoying the the dialogue scenes and
normally i do really enjoy the action scenes you
know they get my adrenaline going and i enjoy you
know when i was watching captain america civil war
earlier i was like wow like black widow does get
a lot of decent action scenes in this film um
but some of them in this one were just like a
bit too much like either they went on too long
or they came they went to full throttle too
suddenly and so that was like i was like
all right okay i’m ready to get my teeth into
something else happening now i think um and so
that that was just me personally i will say that
like on the whole i do think you have to have an
interest in this character to enjoy that film now
that that might seem like an obvious thing to say
but i think that if you’re going into one of
the more ensemble films or one of the sort of
bigger characters like incredible hulk
or captain america or you know thor
um there’s more to kind of take away from it
on the whole there’s some humor in there and
there’s some action in there and there’s some
interest about that character i do think that
you have to have a little bit of a background
about you know having seen this character in
other films and being a fan of this character
in other films because it does go into the whole
origin of a black widow character not just
natasha romanoff like a black widow in general
and so i do think you have to have a level
of interest because the film does start off
quite slowly and we sort of pick up where natasha
is kind of wanted for breaking the um uh sokovia
sarkovic um thing that the minister of defense
signs in civil war um and so she’s wanted and
she’s on the run and so there’s not a lot going
on at the very beginning um and then it’s only
when she kind of when our other characters come
into play that the film begins to sort of pick up
pace a little bit and so i do think you have
to have a vested interest in this character
in order to kind of get into this film from the
beginning the person next to me clearly did not
have that she was sure she did laugh at points
but i think she wasn’t really into the film she
was on her phone a couple of times she left to
go and get food and was gone for quite a while
she kind of left towards the end and then came
back and so that’s kind of where i’m like i do
think that you do have to have a bit of a an extra
elevated interest me i was so excited about this
one i was so gutted when i thought i wasn’t going
to be able to see it because obviously everything
got cancelled um it was supposed to come out what
may last year oh my goodness um and so i was like
ramped up for seeing it in may you know ready
to order my tickets whenever they came out um
so it was nice to see it in a full theater i
have to say you know you get that atmosphere
um and because she is one of my favorite avengers
characters i was just excited to get to know more
and to get to see more it wasn’t quite what i
expected and as i say the pacing was sometimes
a little off in parts in very specific ways um
but i really like the humor i like the writing
and i like florence pew and i really hope
that we get to see more from her character
from the marvel cinematic universe at some
point soon i really do hope um obviously
i do think that a you should pay your cinema
going money to see this film this week and b
i think that you should see this film in the big
screen as big a screen as pos as you possibly can
with as good sound as you possibly can but
don’t sit too close to the screen because
you will be assaulted your senses will not thank
you for it your ears will be buzzing afterwards
um so yes there you have it i am a fan of this
one i hope you’ve enjoyed this spoiler-free review
let me know in comments if you have seen this
one and i would be interested in those of you
who’ve done the premiere access at home how
was it seeing a brand new marvel film at home
for the first time i’d be really interested to
hear how that experience compares to say seeing
maybe like captain marvel or spider-man far
from home those kind of last couple that we saw
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