The Black Widow

The Black Widow is part of Marvel's superhero series.

Linda Winsh-Bolard



The most interesting part of The Black Widow is the lawsuit filed by Scarlett Johansson against Disney’s Marvel Entertainment l over her part of the profits. Johansson alleged that her agreement with Disney's Marvel Entertainment 1 guaranteed an exclusive theater release and that her salary was partly based on the box office performance of the film.Disney released the film simultaneously in theaters and on streaming services.

Scarlett Johansson plays Natasha Romanoff, aka Black Widow, a woman who, as a girl, was abducted and trained to become a special agent. In this part of the series, she tries to make sense of that part of her life, her childhood. life before she became an Avenger.

Natasha learns from her "sister" Yellena that the Red Room and Dreykov are still operational, and that she deluded herself when she thought she had killed him, even though she sacrificed an innocent, Dreykov's daughter, Antonia, to destroy him.

Yellena is younger, her training included the use of a serum that subdues the girls in the assassin training program to make them obey all commands. A chemical that includes self- destruction by suicide, when the ordered.
Yellena's new discovery , also a serum, reverses the chemical brain washing. I wished that it was this easy in real life.

Naturally, the sisters set out to destroy the Red Room and Dreykov for good.

Since we are on the villains, the Tasmasker, a killing machine, is a new addition. Sleek design, immense power, and some surprises.

Human moments are rare. This is an action packed movie. Any number of fights, many are cat fights, escapes, car chases, bike chases, flights of all sorts.

The editing of those sequences is first rate. The stunt men and women are incredible. Add CGI of all sort, visually, there is nothing to complain about.

Logistically, there are some odd mistakes. A trained assassin taking refuge in a remote cabin, connected to the world only by a bridge, is unlikely to fall into a trap set by heating fuel running out in a day. A shortage that will force her to cross that bridge.

But hey, it is a convulsed story with all kinds of twists, unnatural powers, and forces, so what is one little mistake?

The one thing that felt truly real comes when Natasha is looking at the pile of photographs of girls trained and placed to perform as black widows. She says: "There are always more girls."

This is not new, Sylvester Stallone in First Blood (1982) expressed the same sentiment by saying: "I'm expendable," but it is true. There are always more people to be used.
Rarely does somebody come to their rescue. Marvel presents a dream of rescue, well shot, incredibly staged, full of beautiful people and strong machines, and delivered to, until lately, a silver screen palace.

The film is star studded. That ensures that the acting is good. None of the characters require anything special, this is straight, no nonsense thriller-action movie, and all those stars could act their parts in their sleep; they are all good and very experienced actors.

You must like the genre, if this is your cup of blood, it will not disappoint.

The one thing that felt truly life real comes when Natasha is looking at the pile of photographs of girls trained and placed to perform as black widows. She says: " There is always more girls."

This is not new, Sylvester Stallone in First Blood (1982) expressed the same sentiment by saying: "I'm expendable", but it is true. There are always more people to be used.

Rarely somebody comes to rescue them. Marvel present a dream of rescue, well shot, incredibly staged, full of beautiful people, delivered to, until lately, silver screen palace.

The film is star studded. That ensures that the acting is good. None of the characters require anything special, this is straight, no nonsense thriller-action movie, and all those stars could act their parts in their sleep; they are all good and very experienced actors.

You must like the genre, if this is your cup of blood, it will not disappoint.




Directed by Cate Shortland. With Scarlett Johansson, Florence Pugh as Yellena Belova, Rachel Weisz as Melina Vostokoff, David Harbour as Alexei Shostakov, Ray Winstone as Dreykoff, William Hurt as Secretary Ross. Olga Kurylenko is the sole Russian speaker, born in Ukraine of Russian and Ukrainian ancestry, as Antonia Dreykov .

* The law suit was settled.