Black Widow~The Movie Review

Hi movie lovers, how is the weather treating you in your various locations? It’s been a really cold weather this period.
So two days ago I decided to watch this movie that has been on my watchlist for a while now-Black Widow. The movie name just seemed interesting and then I found out it is a Marvel Production but I’m not really a fan so I just decided to watch the movie through the lens of a bored lady looking for how to pass time.

PLOT SUMMARY
Black Widow began with a flashback of a young Natasha that’s living a quiet life in Ohio with her younger sister Yelena, Melina her mother, and her father Alexei. But the family was a lie. They were actually undercover Russian agents. After their mission ended, they fled to Cuba, where the girls got separated from their "parents" and then sent to the Red Room, a secret program that brainwashed girls into deadly assassins known as Black Widows.

Years later, Natasha was seen on the run for violating the Sokovia Accords and hid in Norway. Meanwhile, Yelena who was now grown, got freed from mind control after her exposure to a red gas which they called “antidote”. She sends the antidote to Natasha, hoping she would help liberate the other Widows since she was seen as a hero after she joined the avengers.

Natasha then got attacked by the mysterious Taskmaster, who mimics any opponent’s fighting style. She escaped and reunited with Yelena her sister in Budapest. They discovered that the Red Room was still active, led by Dreykov whom Natasha believed she had killed along with his daughter some years ago.

They break their “father” Alexei who was also seen as the Red Guardian out of prison and located Melina, who reveals that she has been helping Dreykov develop mind control tech.
But with a clever identity swap with Melina, Natasha infiltrated the Red Room, which was surprisingly a floating fortress, which explains why no one could find it for so long.

She confronted Dreykov and disabled his pheromonal lock by breaking her own nose.
And then, a massive battle followed with Yelena freeing the Widows, Alexei fighting the Taskmaster, and Melina destroying the base.
Natasha saved Yelena mid-air after a fiery explosion when she made sure to jeopardize Dreykov’s jet making sure not to allow him escape.

MOVIE REVIEW

So yea, spoiler alert…I’m not going to be reviewing this movie from the POV of a Marvel fan. I’ll just be reviewing it like a regular movie watcher, so please don’t be pissed if it doesn’t rhyme with your analogy.

This movie taught me two major things which are, Family and Trust.

On the family side, I think the movie did a really good job showing that family is not necessarily about blood ties. The family Natasha and Yelena found themselves in wasn’t perfect at all, but at the end of the day, the bond they shared was what really saved the day.
There were indeed rough moments, disagreements, and a lot of baggage, but it reflected the reality that even real families have bad days. The scene where Yelena cried in Melina’s place because she got to know that the family wasn’t real even though it felt real to her, was such an emotional one.
What stood out was how they still remembered the love they had for each other and chose to fight side by side when it truly mattered.

On the side of Trust, I have to talk about the plot twist where Natasha exchanged identity with Melina just so they could penetrate the Red Room to defeat Dreykov. That scene caught me off guard! I genuinely didn’t see it coming and I think it was one of the most brilliant parts of the movie. It showed deep trust between them to be able to plan and pull that off under such pressure.

Also, the fact that they still chose to trust their “dad” to help them even after he literally handed them over to go through the kind of torture they went through, says a lot about how sometimes trust isn’t about what has happened in the past, but about who you believe someone is, deep down.

Overall, I’ll rate this movie a solid 8/10 It was packed with action, some loving moments, and some powerful lessons wrapped in one package that kept me glued to my screen.

I leave you with the trailer

All images are mine