Black Widow (2021) | Movie Review | Micha's Breakdown

Marvel's first theatrical release for Phase 4 is here - and also premiered on Disney+ with Premium Access. Did it show that other properties on the streaming service were available before this movie? And how did our favorite spy fare in her first (and likely only) solo outing? Join me and find out more!

Review of Black Widow (2021).

Details about the reviewed movie:
Directed by Cate Shortland,
Written by Eric Pearson,
Story by Jac Schaeffer & Ned Benson, based on Marvel Comics,
Produced by Kevin Feige,
Cinematography by Gabriel Beristain,
Editing by Leigh Folsom Boyd & Matthew Schmidt,
Music by Lorne Balfe,
Production company: Marvel Studios,
Distributed by Walt Disney Studios Motion Pictures.

Release date: June 29, 2021 (world premieres), July 9, 2021 (United States),
Running time: 134 minutes.

Starring:
Scarlett Johansson as Natasha Romanoff / Black Widow,
Florence Pugh as Yelena Belova / Black Widow,
David Harbour as Alexei Shostakov / Red Guardian,
O-T Fagbenle as Rick Mason,
Olga Kurylenko as Antonia Dreykov,
William Hurt as Thaddeus Ross,
Ray Winstone as Dreykov,
Rachel Weisz as Melina Vostokoff / Black Widow,
Liani Samuel, Michelle Lee, and Nanna Blondell as Red Room assassins Lerato, Oksana, and Ingrid,
Olivier Richters as Ursa Major,
Jeremy Renner as Clint Barton in an uncredited voice-only cameo.

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The background song is "The Rising" by Aakash Gandhi.

Content:
0:00 Intro
0:50 Synopsis
2:28 Review
11:05 Rating
11:39 Last Callout
13:01 Closing & Goodbye

[pitiflauticus]

I wonder how much of our perception of this movie was influenced by its poor timing... Would you have rated it higher of it had been released two or three years ago instead of this year?