The audience thought that the farewell performance of Marvel’s first goddess “Black Widow” could be more exciting.
There are reasons for high expectations.
From the official announcement to the postponement of “Black Widow”, it finally landed in North American theaters and Disney+ simultaneously.
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As soon as it was released, North America closed early on Thursday at the box office of $13.2 million.
In contrast, when “Fast and Furious 9” was held early Thursday, the box office was only $7.1 million.
The media now predicts that the film’s box office in North America will top $80 million in the first weekend.
Not only in North America, the film went live in the Netherlands, Sweden, Austria, the Czech Republic, Qatar and Slovakia to record the highest first-day box office since 2020.
In Saudi Arabia, it was the highest-grossing Disney movie on the first day.
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Not to mention, at the end of the first three stages of the Marvel Cinematic Universe, Natasha has become the most difficult female character in the hearts of countless audiences.
Prior to this, she was also the only superhero in the first six-man group who did not have a single movie. And this is the ultimate battle of Marvel’s sister.
So this sequel, which is 11 years late, is of course expected to complete Natasha’s perfect curtain call.
But what about the final result?
The IMDb open score is also 7.2 points, which is a downward trend.
In the Marvel series, this is certainly not a very good result. It can even be said that it is quite bad.
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And you know, there are actually a lot of emotional points mixed in it. It was the feelings of “Natasha farewell to the show” that infected the audience, not necessarily the movie itself.
Criticizing Marvel? No, I just feel it is a pity.
Not for Marvel, but for Natasha and Black Widow, which is a pity.
Where is the failure? It is “not launched at the right time”.
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When everyone called for Marvel to launch a single-player Black Widow movie, Marvel remained unmoved.
When “Wonder Woman” hit the box office, Marvel finally launched the single-player Black Widow movie. The fate of the first generation of Black Widow in the reunion has been set.
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In the comics, there is also the second-generation black widow, Yelena, the younger sister of the widow who appeared in the film.
So who would have thought that in the hands of Marvel, the ultimate battle of the first generation of black widows turned out to be a stepping-stone movie for the newcomers.
Marvel, after all, failed Natasha.
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“Black Widow” is not a bad movie, it’s just too mediocre
The plot of this film roughly took place between “Captain America 3” and “Avengers 3.”
Because the Black Widow chose to support Captain America in the super-British fight in the finale of “Captain America 3”, she became a wanted criminal and began hiding.
However, on the way to escape, he was spotted by the villain of the “Taskmaster” from the Red House.
So the story of this one turned into the Black Widow’s complete end to the grudge with Red Room, and also the appearance of the second-generation Black Widow.
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And the first major advantage of the film is the memory of Red Room.
Many viewers said that after watching the entire film, the most impressive was the opening minute.
It quickly confessed the life experience of the black widow, that is, the childhood black widow received etiquette, culture, dance and other skills in the Red Room, as well as training shots, firearms, espionage and other abilities.
It not only explained the identity of the black widow, but also told the audience why she was once a murderous machine with no emotions.
If you really dig down this point, the film will score 8 points, and the word-of-mouth will be completely possible, and the result will be anticlimactic.
The second major advantage is the action scenes of the film.
It’s not that the film surpassed Natasha’s previous action performance in Marvel, but Natasha’s action performance is too eye-catching, has always been extremely powerful and beautiful, even if it is normal, it is already exciting enough.
Since the film is a routine of action thrillers, there are not too many sci-fi scenes, and the action scenes are dominated by close combat and high-energy body movements.
Moreover, they are all realistic styles. The punches and punches are particularly strong, so the audience can still watch Natasha’s heroic style.
And in the movie, the setting of the Red Room is actually more sci-fi, and the setting of the Red Room is arranged in the sky instead of the ground base in the comics setting.
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So when it comes to the finale of the Red Room Falling, there will be an aerial action scene of Red Room Falling + Skydiving + Fighting.
This scene should have burned a large part of the film’s budget, and it is indeed very exciting.
It should be even more shocking if you watch it on the big screen, and now you can feel the atmosphere of the world breaking apart.
Furthermore, the duel between Black Widow and Taskmaster was also well shot.
Taskmaster’s ability is very special, that is, it can imitate any action you see.
Not only copied and pasted the widow sister’s actions, but also lost a good shield, as if Captain America possessed him. This paragraph is also a bit new.
The last is the sentimental passage, especially the two ending scenes.
One is the last time the Black Widow and sister whistle farewell. The audience also knows that it is the final screen farewell to the first goddess of Marvel and us.
Whether or not it contains feelings for Natasha itself, this scene is still very moving, and many people may cry.
And the last feeling meal is enough for Marvel fans to cry for a while.
However, the problem also came.
Obviously there are such high-gloss clips, which can obviously be taken very tightly and wonderfully. It is obvious that the many eggs buried in the film are connected to Natasha’s past and future.
Why did the whole film fall to the pass line all night?
The ultimate battle of Marvel’s first goddess turned out to be a stepping stone for the newcomers?
Two surface problems, one fundamental problem.
First, the story is boring.
The film essentially tells a story about loss and redemption.
The basic setting of the film is actually the same as most superhero origin stories: how the hero confirms his identity and eventually becomes a hero.
The problem is that as Marvel’s second single-film female superhero, the whole film is too boring and too conservative in the excavation of female superheroes.
The grievances between Natasha and Red Room, from contradictory settings, difficult settings, and the development of the plot, are very mature and very Marvel.
But it also seemed dull. In the end, the role of Natasha did not excavate any new arcs at all.
Of course, the aging Natasha is still beautiful.
But for a Natasha’s Marvel ending battle, the story obviously lacks a permeable and resonant character core.
For example, Spider-Man is a fetter to Iron Man, Ant-Man is a father-daughter relationship, and Black Panther is a “prince’s revenge.”
But “Black Widow” is about her and Red Room’s story, but not the origin story of Black Widow.
Therefore, this movie did not use a large length to tell Natasha’s past and present. The whole story is just a fragment of her life.
The result is that the plot and the characters are very instrumental, and it does not reflect Natasha’s personal charm at all.
I can’t see the process of the black widow’s character transformation, nor has it sparked any spark on women’s issues.
It’s not as good as the few episodes of “Avengers” that impressed the audience with Natasha.
Budapest, which has been rendered several times before, thought that the thrill of the year could be restored in this movie.
Even Hawkeye came to show his face or something, but only a few arrow holes on the wall explained it?
The main feature is not fancy, but there are a lot of humorous scenes in the film, especially the cue Avengers, Hawkeye and Captain America. It’s not funny if it is a bit bad.
The villain is too weak.
We have high hopes for Taskmaster, except for the opening of the two hands, it is not too brilliant, not even the ultimate villain, and finally has to save the black widow.
The ultimate villain once again shows the stupid image of the villain dying of too much talk.
In short, it is weak.
But these are just the superficial problems of the film’s failure. What is the fundamental problem?
It’s that this movie is not actually a biography of Black Widow.
It is to pave the way for the second-generation Black Widow who is about to appear in full swing, leading to the second-generation Black Widow character.
Under this reversal of priority, in addition to telling the main line of Black Widow and Red Room, the film has almost always paved the way for Yelena, who played Florence Pugh.
The result is that the character of Black Widow has become very fragmented in this film. Every time a passage of her past is revealed, we all know a little bit about her.
But in the end, whether it was the shadow of childhood pain or the later escape, we couldn’t combine these fragmented images to form a complete black widow.
In the end, you will find that there is nothing new about this character except for the handsomeness and beauty as before.
The only certainty is that Natasha’s final destiny will not change in any way.
The real surprise of the film is Yelena.
It can even be said that this is not a farewell battle for the Black Widow, but more like a movie called “The Second Generation of Black Widow: Origin”.
The film explains Yelena’s origins, namely the orphans taken in by the early Red Room.
Yelena formed a family of undercover agents in disguise with the Red Guard and Natasha when she was a child, and she even thought that they were her real family members.
The film also gave this character a lot of pleasing character.
For example, she has beautiful action scenes that don’t lose Natasha, and there are many gag clips that will make you think this role is very interesting.
Especially when she complained that Natasha’s official pose was too contrived.
In the Red Room battle, I also tried to do this action myself, but it turned out that it was a bit of a hip pull, which was also the biggest laugh in the movie.
Even the most disturbing sensational passage of the film was triggered by her.
It was when she found out that the family relationship back then was a scam, and shouted out the phrase “This is true to me, you are my mother, the closest person to me, the best part of my life is fake, and None of you told me!”
Even so, this character still sacrifices himself in order to kill the boss and protect his “family” at a critical moment. How could this character be unsuccessful and not impressive?
Of course, the character is definitely not dead, and the sisters are still hugging each other in the air and the sisters recognize each other.
Florence Pugh, a young actor who has starred in “Midsommar” and “Little Women”, also showed outstanding acting skills in this film.
I don’t have any dislike for this actor, it is Marvel who dislikes it.
It is not to say that a new generation of black widows should not be launched at this time, but new people should not be promoted at the expense of the older generation of black widows.
The final battle of the Black Widow should have been so dazzling!
But why the whole movie, the scenes of Black Widow, are so boring.
It’s normal to think about it, because the whole movie is like a movie that was finally released after five years of pressure.
If the film is released after “Captain America 3”, many plots are still meaningful.
But now the black widows are all sacrificed. Unless you let the black widow come alive again, why should the audience care about her previous grievances with the Red Room?
And those family emotions are very strange, and I don’t know if it is considered family affection in the end, so what is the meaning of this journey to find roots?
In the final analysis, it is this setting that is not embarrassing or awkward directly caused the emotional expression of the film to lose its footing.
And the instigator of all this is of course Marvel.
The more classic the black widow, the lonely Marvel’s future
For Marvel, the black widow is not important, but the Marvel universe is important.
Marvel has built its own movie universe, leaving all competitors in the series far behind.
Their trick to success is to serve the matrix.
Of course, the success of the role of black widow also depends on this matrix.
In fact, in the original comics, Black Widow is not a popular one, just like Iron Man is not a superhero.
But since her debut in “Iron Man 2”, this female agent named Natasha has been handsome to everyone.
In “The Avengers”, she not only formed the original Avengers with Iron Man, Captain America, Thor, Hawkeye and the Hulk.
He even cut his hair into neat short hair, contracting half of the difficult actual action scenes in the film.
Later, she also performed quite well in other single hero movies.
After Hawkeye was controlled by her will, she brought it back to her sanity. The Hulk got out of control, and she calmed him down.
Until “Avengers 4”, she sacrificed herself without hesitation, making the role of Black Widow more complete and moving.
However, the most popular and well-known super heroine of Marvel, but it will be 11 years later before she waits for her first single-player movie.
Marvel would rather shoot Captain Marvel’s solo film first than Black Widow in order to lay out the Marvel universe.
When the true story finally came out, this role had been sacrificed. So this movie was half a failure from the beginning.
From “Iron Man”, “Thor”, “Captain America”, “Doctor Strange”, “Ant-Man”, “Black Panther”, “Spiderman” to “Captain Marvel”.
These Marvel single-player movies are not all about introducing a character, a full character, so that you can understand this character better, and write a biography for this character?
But a single movie of a dead superhero is at best a late mourning.
In contrast, the film is even far inferior to the “Loki” series.
The latter at least talked about another possibility of Loki, allowing us to deeply understand the multi-faceted character of Loki.
In the end, this is just a Marvel movie with a standardized process.
The stinger in the finale directly put the role of Florence Pugh in the upcoming Marvel drama “Hawkeye”.
How do you satisfy the audience?
There is no doubt that the success of Marvel lies in the creation of a cosmic model in which each movie is connected to each other, giving movie fans an experience of chasing drama.
But 4 “Avengers”, 3 “Iron Man”, 3 “Captain America”, 3 “Thor”, 2 “Guardians of the Galaxy”, 2 “Ant-Man”, 1 “Hulk” , 1 “Doctor Strange”, 1 “Black Panther”, 1 “Captain Marvel”, and 1 “Black Widow” After reaching the absolute peak, Marvel will inevitably face challenges after reaching the peak.
With the six characters represented by the original Avengers, either retires or the story line ends.
New heroes, whether it is Shang-Chi, Eternals or Doctor Strange, can hardly take their place in terms of emotional connection or character creation.
And Marvel’s own creations have begun to show fatigue. Except for “Loki”, “Wanda Vision” and “Falcon Winter Soldier”, they all started with a strong momentum and ended hurriedly.
In fact, the matter of mobilizing the audience’s emotions is the same as climbing a mountain.
Step by step, step by step, climb step by step, and finally reach the apex in one effort.
But what to do if you get to the top?
Can only climb to the top and bottom, but can Marvel do it?
Just like the new Black Widow, if the audience cannot recognize her from the bottom of their hearts, then she can only be a hero of the Marvel Universe, and will never become the black widow in the audience’s hearts.
Finally, the Black Widow has participated in 8 movies in these 11 years, bringing countless wonderful moments, and finally sacrificed for the reunion.
But after watching this movie, the audience will feel that the phrase “Avengers are not your family” in the movie is too right.
So many superheroes did not even hold a funeral for Natasha after the death of the Black Widow.
At the end of the movie, Yelena came to Natasha’s grave to mourn.
What kind of grave is that, some netizens said, it looks like a mass grave.
Is this Marvel’s attitude towards heroes?
Black Panther once said to Black Widow: “In my culture, death is not the end, it’s more like a starting point to an unfamiliar territory…” The film is now selling at the box office.
The film director said that of course, “Black Widow” may have a sequel.
But Natasha will not return, and in “Avengers 4”, Natasha’s ending is indeed already written.
So the death of the black widow in the film is indeed not the end of this role, there will definitely be a second generation of black widows.
But unfortunately, that has nothing to do with Natasha.
Many people say that the appearance of Black Widow is likely to affect the film’s box office in South Korea. But I want to give this look to Marvel.
The ultimate battle of Marvel’s first goddess was still messed up by them.
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