Film Review: Black widow

Genre: Action / Adventure / Sci-fi

Cert: 12A

Director:  Cate Shortland

Screenwriter: (screenplay by) Eric Pearson, (story by) Jac Schaeffer, Ned Benson

Starring: Scarlett Johansson, Florence Pugh, David Harbour, Rachel Weisz, Ray Winstone, Ever Anderson, Violet McGraw, O-T Fagbenle, William Hurt, Ryan Kiera Armstrong, many more....

Running time: 2h 13min

Parents advised reading before viewing the film as some scenes may contain scenes unsuitable for younger viewers.

Sex & Nudity: There is a discussion about periods, which turns into hysterectomies. This discussion makes a man uncomfortable. This is meant to be comedic.

A man says he "has a lot of energy", referencing how he wants to have sex. It is comedic and interrupted as a character is disgusted.

Widow is seen changing getting off her shirt with her bra visible from a back view. No more nudity from there.

Violence & Gore: Occasional back-to-back sequences of action violence including stabbings, punchings, twisting bones and use of gunfire.

In a scene, a man is arm-wrestling with different men. One opponent suggests the man is a liar, and so the man breaks his opponent's wrist. He cries in pain as his hand is shown flopping around. This comes out of nowhere and is quite brutal, but its impact is lessened as the scene is somewhat comedic.

A man kicks, punches and hits women several times throughout the film so it's counted as sexual violence. Nothing too graphic though. 

Profanity: Infrequent mild language. 4 uses of "shit" and other brief uses of "pussy", "retard", "damn" and "pissed".

Alcohol/Drugs/Smoking: Casual drinking, sometimes in bottles and sometimes in shots. These scenes are usually light-hearted or character moments.

Syringes with various liquids are used throughout the film, all with the same effect of knocking the victim unconscious. This happens to little girls, women, and a man. It is for relocation and nothing else.

Frightening/Intense Scenes: A helicopter falls out of the sky due to running out of fuel. This is done in a comedic manner.

A pig is deprived of oxygen until it almost dies. This may be frightening for people who love animals.

Story: In Marvel Studios' action-packed spy thriller "Black Widow," Natasha Romanoff aka Black Widow confronts the darker parts of her ledger when a dangerous conspiracy with ties to her past arises. Pursued by a force that will stop at nothing to bring her down, Natasha must deal with her history as a spy and the broken relationships left in her wake long before she became an Avenger.

Likes: I'll be honest this was more of a Florence Pugh movie than scarlet Johanson black widow, as she carried this film all the way through with an outstanding performance which I feel absolute disappointed for her with the way they butch one of the most well-known villains in the MCU which was supposed to be Anthony tony masters.

while the action scene is great, though some fight scenes used a pet peeve of mind with the shaky camera, the film does start off good, which is a damn shame, since black widow been an established character throughout the MCU, especial when the film show a whole different life outside the avengers. Bt sadly for me this film was utterly ruined by gender swap a character that been an established male character who a merc for hir that has a photographic memory and to read every move without some tech helping him.

Sadly I honestly can not say this film is anywhere as good as it should've been, that because of the screenwriter's mistake, as I said it felt like Florence Pugh was carrying the whole film through, which showed bad writing when one actress/actor has to carry the film for everyone else.

Dislikes: The film had a great slow start, with great action and plot but marvel feminizing the film will not go down well with Marvel fans gender-swapping one of marvel's biggest villains, which you would think marvel would have learned from their last mistake which made them bankrupt in the first place. 

with the way one actress is carrying the film, the movie its self was very mediocre, then they went a step further a butcher a major character in the MCU which made it worst, I do feel that if they had just kept the original character of taskmaster this film would have been a lot better, because what they have done made this the weakest Marvel film to date. 

I do think it's a film that should've been done before the end game because it feels like a throwaway film to introduce a new female character to the franchise, which I hope is better done this one.   

Overall: great performance, good action, butcher character. the bad third character in the film.

Rating: 3.3 out of 5 for Entertainment / 6.4 out of 10 for MCU's first female lead.