The things they did to Taskmaster are unforgivable. I actually enjoyed the first 2/3rds of the movie. There is a lot of unexpected humor. Florence Pugh and David Harbour really knock it out of the park, but it fails to bring it together in the end. The result is a bunch of scenes that are intended to be emotional, but ultimately play out as forced and borderline cringeworthy. Black Widow is not a Torretto. Turning this super spy into an emotional vulnerable individual searching for family plays out as disconnected as you'd expect. Even worse is the lack of a present villain for the first half 2/3rds of the movie makes their confrontation feel less poignant despite the supposed deep ties. This could have been solved somewhat through a Taskmaster that actually talked, but instead they decided to do what Wolverine: Origins did to Deadpool and take one of the more talkative characters and turn them into a soulless robot that only follows orders. I mean that almost literally. As a result, the shifts of allies and the end confrontation just ends up falling flat and irrational. There is a lot of good substance here that rewrites could have saved, but the result we're left with here just feels ill conceived and weirdly placed, like a Black Widow movie getting made in the first place after the main character has already been killed in the future.

You want my honest opinion ? [spoiler] - A boring, uninteresting story taken right out of a Bond movie. Shoehorned in between events we've already seen. - Humor that isn't the least bit funny. - About 45 minutes too long. All the family reunion stuff did absolutely nothing for me. - Generic action scenes with at times below average looking CGI - Zero emotional investement - Hilarious Russian accents [/spoiler] Conclusion: [spoiler] dissapointing [/spoiler]

Reminds me of a G.I. Joe movie and I don't say that complimentary. Pugh was amazing and she stole the show and I am now a fan of hers so that was one good thing but this movie was boring and not grounded at all and I know that sounds silly talking about a Marvel movie but this is Black Widow. Why did they treat Taskmaster like Deadpool in Wolverine? What a travesty and waste of a character. Not for me at all and that is fine. If people like it then good and they shouldn't be offended I don't. I'll never watch it again and that is okay.

Shallow characters, empty, boring and cliche storyline - apart from being a Marvel movie, nothing is really great about this one. And we didn't even get to know what really happened in Budapest - but at least as a hungarian, I'm glad they cleared how we say Budapest. 😆

I looked forward to this not because I've been blown away by the recent Marvel films - by the time Endgame arrived, I was past humouring the franchise if I'm honest - but because Scarlett Johansson deserved a standalone film before her time was up. The worst Marvel film so far for me was Captain Marvel. Just tedious, inconsequential, Marvel-by-the-numbers. This is now 2nd on their list of piss poor films. The opening 20 minutes were really good. Setting a scene that could have rivalled Winter Soldier - for me, the best of the franchise so far. But once the sisterly reunion was over, it went downhill fast. I think it was the cumulative effect of so many ropey accents. Even cockney geezer Ray Winstone shouldn't be given a role if he refuses to do voice lessons... Quite unforgivable. I liked Olga Kurylenko, as always. I disliked that her stunt double was clearly a man for the first 2/3 of the film. How is that meant to be ratified by the viewer? I thought the constant humour was an effort to be Thor Ragnorok-like because, you know, "all Australians are funny"... but that didn't work. And jokes about involuntary hysterectomies don't fall right 99 times out of 100, I'm guessing. The plot was staid. The action generic. The script fine, I suppose, had it not been for those dreadful accents throughout. And the confinement of the time line needing to fit in with the rest of the franchise meant it was always going to end at a point we all knew it needed to. So the ending really was a damp squib. 5/10 PS. One thing that irked me a little was the unnecessary complaint by SJ during press for the film about feeling sexualised (though I don't recall where in the myriad plots) . Clearly the director and her had an agreement to do tracking shots of her arse several times during this film. If that's not hypocrisy, I don't know what is. For a film this average, I won't be holding a grudge though as I won't remember a single thing about this movie tomorrow.