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"The Black Widow" is supposed to be the late correction for years of past injustices Natasha Romanoff, but even effective action scenes fail to lift the clichéd and corny script.

Its mediocrity makes it a film that can definitely be enjoyed, but it's hard to pinpoint anything that will stay with viewers after it ends.

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Ilan Kaprov

Sunday, 11 July 2021, 11:36 Updated: 11:48

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Trailer "The Black Widow" (Disney Israel)

Please note, the review includes spoilers for "The Avengers: The End of the Game"

from whichever direction you look, the Black Widow is arguably the most tragic character in Marvel's expanded cinematic universe since its inception. Plot-wise, she is the avenger who gave her life in order to bring the world back to normal after the blip. Commercially, she is the female character who missed the Mi Tu revolution in a particularly sucks way. Her beginnings (in "Iron 2") were characterized by the sexist and old-fashioned hollow image of female comic book characters, and along the way there was never an opportunity to produce a correction for her and allow her to carve her way in her own story. There were mini-novels, a few moments of glory, but at the end of the day the Black Widow always stood in the shadow of others. Even in the field of merchandise it was neglected and forgotten, a reminder of the days when "girls' toys" were considered unattractive. Then, when it was finally Torah's turn to shine after a full decade, came the corona, which would disrupt the film's revenue potential.

Had he probably been injured in our lives just a few years late, Natasha Romanoff (Scarlett Johansson) would have enjoyed the female golden age of Carol Denvers, Wanda Maximoff, Diana Prince (in the rival cinematic universe) and others and goodies to come in the coming years.

But she was late.

Trying to do her a favor is a multi-year project, the result of increasing pressure on Marvel and the powerful man in everything related to its cinema universe - Kevin Paige.

In the absence of a future, the film bearing her character's name returns to the past, immediately after the events of "Captain America: Civil War" to be exact.

The "Socobia Agreements" signed in the wake of the film's events stipulated that the Avengers would no longer operate as an independent entity, but would be treated under scrutiny and in accordance with United Nations considerations.

The rift created by the decision and split into the iconic gang of heroes, led to Romanoff's going underground.

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Suffers from congestion.

"The Black Widow" (Photo: Disney Israel)

The plot meets Romanoff as she returns to the life that preceded her days as an avenger.

We had already learned that as a child she was taken to a Soviet training camp and trained by a skillful assassin, in which she developed the abilities that would make her a character we had learned to love.

But very little of the veil of secrecy of that project has been revealed so far.

Without slipping into spoilers, Romanoff's past returns to haunt her in the form of a new conspiracy for global takeover.

In her attempt to deal with the new threat, she re-acquaintes herself with some of the complex relationships she has had in the past, led by Yelena (Florence Pio, "Midsummer," "Little Women"), an equally skilled assassin.

The fact that it is a prequel film, presents "The Black Widow" with the challenge that the "Star Wars" solo films have faced in recent years.

In the absence of the possibility of developing the story in future films, the plot needs to build a comprehensive enough exposition to get to know the characters (the vast majority of whom will never return to our lives), offer an intriguing plot that reaches a satisfying climax, solve it in the most explosive way possible. .

And all this in two hours and a bit, because after that our level of attention crashes.

And as with most of those movies, "The Black Widow" suffers from this congestion - which eventually leads to a mess.

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A cartoonish imitation of the real thing.

David Harbor as Alexei, "The Black Widow" (Photo: Disney Israel)

First and foremost, things are expressed in the quality of the story (trusted by Eric Pearson, who actually made a corps with a portfolio that includes the excellent "Thor: Ragnarok" and "Agent Carter" underrated). "The Black Widow" is a kind of shatanz between a world-wide spy drama in the style of "Bourne" movies, a family drama and of course the base story of the main character. But the film has a hard time finding itself in two of them. The spy class suffers from moldy clichés like characters speaking English in an unreliable Russian accent. It's hard to believe that a product from the world's most successful movie studios still falls into this laziness trap. One can (as "Chernobyl" proved) speak only English, one can speak Russian and translate, but the compromise between the two makes any "Russian" character ridiculous in the first place. It is clear that "The Black Widow" is inspired by the wonderful series "The Americans". Too bad she ignores the credibility and authenticity of the spy series.

Take for example the character of Alexei (David Harbor, "Strange Things").

On the face of it, this is the unfamiliar Russian version of Captain America, but because of the lack of time and the clichéd characterization - the chain of events (tragic in itself) of his life fails to manifest itself.

What is left is a cartoonish imitation of the real thing, but without the emotional layer that allows one to connect to it.

The original part of Romanoff is destroyed by the film's great villain, an issue that many Marvel films suffer from.

And here, too, without revealing too many plot details, it is, again, a gray and unremarkable character, a philosophy or an original course of action, whose work begins and ends with a desire to take over the world.

Comics rise and fall almost always on this balance of horror between good and evil, light and darkness.

When the gap between them is so unbridgeable, as in this case - the level of emotion and interest also fails to rise.

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Chemistry that pops off the screen.

Scarlett Johansson and Florence Pew, "The Black Widow" (Photo: Disney Israel)

What remains is the family saga: the part that manages to turn "The Black Widow" into an entertaining film.

The film actually raises the question of what a family is: Is it a concept limited in time or number of people, is a family someone who is in our hearts or around us and does truth or falsehood affect the perception of the family over time?

The answers to these questions are thought-provoking, and mostly manage to load the character of Romanoff with a great deal of sympathy and sympathy that she has lacked over the years.

A lot of the loneliness, detachment and need for belonging that characterized this character in the various films, connect here and paint her in new colors.

This is also the part where the marvelous Johnson-always and his mouth, who makes an impressive baptism of fire here (one might say "as expected") in the world of heroes - shines above the rest of the cast.

It's not only their familiar presence as excellent actresses, but also chemistry that manages to literally jump off the screen.

Kate Shortland ("Laura"), only the second director in the history of Marvel (after Anna Bowden in "Captain Marvel"), does a good job here directing effective and satisfying action scenes, although they also suffer from blatantly unreliable script choices - like falls or deeds Which are supposed to lead to cruel death, and end in nothing.

All in all, and the heavy comic book fans will forgive here, the main attraction for the general public in these films lies in the quantity and quality of cinematic action scenes.

Certainly after the great lack of cinema in our lives recently.

The fact that the Black Widow is not endowed with superpowers adds quite a bit to the enjoyment of these scenes.

Inside the gallery of gods and wizards that is forming in the new generation of heroes, it will undoubtedly be missing.

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The tragic heroine of Marvel.

"The Black Widow" (Photo: Disney Israel)

Is this the film that "came" to Romanoff after all the hardships and injustice that have been a part of it over the years?

The answer is no.

Inside Marvel's extensive gallery of stories, it will be placed deep in the middle - a sentence that is sometimes worse than particularly bad movies, as these are at least conspicuous by their shortcomings.

It is devoid of memorable moments or scenes, not at the level of the action, the characters and almost not at the level of humor (the sting on the pose of the Black Widow is actually quite successful).

With a better script, a better film could and should have been released from such a fine cast and such an excellent character.

But is "The Black Widow" a film that will spend two hours and a bit of fun and blessed escapism?

The answer is yes.

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