{"id":286754,"date":"2021-06-29T19:00:26","date_gmt":"2021-06-29T16:00:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/en.buradabiliyorum.com\/marvels-phase-four-kicks-off-with-action-and-heart\/"},"modified":"2021-06-29T19:00:26","modified_gmt":"2021-06-29T16:00:26","slug":"marvels-phase-four-kicks-off-with-action-and-heart","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/marvels-phase-four-kicks-off-with-action-and-heart\/","title":{"rendered":"#Marvel&#8217;s Phase Four Kicks Off with Action and Heart"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;<strong>#Marvel&#8217;s Phase Four Kicks Off with Action and Heart<\/strong>&#8221;<\/p>\n<div>\n<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\">\n                <\/aside>\n<p><!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 3.7.9--><a href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/category\/watch-movies-tv-seriess\/\" data-internallinksmanager029f6b8e52c=\"8\" title=\"Watch Movies &amp; TV Series\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Movies<\/a> get delayed for all manner of reasons, but few feel as overdue as <strong><em>Black Widow<\/em><\/strong>. Not only was its release <a rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.hollywoodreporter.com\/news\/general-news\/black-widow-west-side-story-delayed-to-2021-amid-pandemic-4065867\/\">held back more than a year<\/a> because of the pandemic, but its actual production was delayed far longer. Talks began more than a decade ago about giving the character a solo adventure, but Marvel head Kevin Feige always found reasons to hold off \u2014 until the character was killed off in 2019\u2019s <em>Avengers: End<a href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/category\/game\/\" data-internallinksmanager029f6b8e52c=\"7\" title=\"Game\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">game<\/a><\/em>. What should have been purely celebratory is now somewhat bittersweet, but h<a href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/category\/download-scripts-themes-apps\/\" data-internallinksmanager029f6b8e52c=\"9\" title=\"Download Scripts &amp; Themes &amp; Apps\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">app<\/a>ily, <em>Black Widow<\/em> is also a terrifically entertaining good time.<\/p>\n<p>Sisters Natasha and Yelena look like normal American kids in 1995 Ohio, but looks can be deceiving. Their \u201cparents,\u201d Melina (<strong>Rachel Weisz<\/strong>) and Alexei (<strong>David Harbour<\/strong>), are actually Russian spies, and after being forced to flee back to the motherland the artificial family is broken up and sent their separate ways. Twenty-one years later, and the now-adult sisters are on the run again. Natasha (<strong>Scarlett Johansson<\/strong>) is being pursued by government officials for her role in the disruption of the Sokovia Accords and suspicion of involvement in the killing of Wakanda\u2019s king. Yelena (<strong>Florence Pugh<\/strong>), meanwhile, is still part of the top-secret Widow program that Natasha escaped years prior, but she too heads into hiding after breaking free of the mind control used to ensure obedient assassins. The long-estranged siblings reunite and join forces to end both the program and the villainous man behind it.<\/p>\n<p><em>Black Widow<\/em> is being billed as a standalone movie in the Marvel Cinematic Universe, but while that\u2019s something of an oxymoron it\u2019s also something worth celebrating even as it kicks off Phase Four. Add to that checklist the fact that it\u2019s only the second MCU movie focused on a female hero and the first to be solo-directed by a woman \u2014 more long overdue stats for a franchise that\u2019s twenty-four movies deep \u2014 and it\u2019s easy to see the importance of what it represents. All of that aside, though, it\u2019s also a highly entertaining ride and a somewhat poignant goodbye to one of the MCU\u2019s more beloved characters.<\/p>\n<p>Director <strong>Cate Shortland<\/strong> brings Natasha\u2019s time between <em>Captain America: Civil War<\/em> (2016) and <em>Avengers: Infinity War<\/em> (2018) to the screen with an eye for human beats both humorous and heartbreaking. And along with Marvel\u2019s in-house second unit, she also helps deliver some solid action sequences. Much of the latter feels more grounded than many MCU entries (at least until the third-act set-piece) \u2014 think more Captain America than Iron Man \u2014 and that makes sense for the character. Natasha is a stylish brawler who relies more on her skills than on gadgets, and while we still get some comic book antics showing the expected disregard for physics we also see the physical toll that all that fighting takes on a human body.<\/p>\n<p>Just because the Avengers are out of the picture doesn\u2019t mean she\u2019s fighting alone, though, as in addition to Yelena she also has the only parents she\u2019s ever known right there by her side. The four make for a rather eccentric family, and while action is on their doorstep, the movie wisely makes time for the characters to reconnect, lick old emotional wounds, and find new bonds along the way. Harbour\u2019s Alexei offers a comic relief of sorts as an out-of-shape has been talking up his glory days of battling Captain America while Weisz\u2019s Melina takes a slightly more serious approach.<\/p>\n<p>The standout, however, is Pugh, who not only steals every scene but who also makes it clear she\u2019ll be a charismatic and punchy force to be reckoned with in the MCU going forward. Pugh and Johansson have fantastic chemistry, and she shares much of Natasha\u2019s fighting style while displaying even more sass. Yelena\u2019s riffing on her sister\u2019s \u201chero pose\u201d is funny stuff, but she\u2019s equally affecting at times including a sequence where she describes how all of the widows received forced hysterectomies while under the control of Dreykov (<strong>Ray Winstone<\/strong>) and his Red Room.<\/p>\n<p>It starts as a mildly humorous beat but finds weight in Pugh\u2019s delivery, and it\u2019s one of many script elements that speak to the movie\u2019s female focus. \u201cThe only natural resource that the world has too much of \u2014 girls,\u201d says Dreykov, and it\u2019s as political a statement as the MCU has ever uttered. From the <em>La Femme Nikita<\/em>-like training that the widows endure to the sad truth of women being prevented from choosing their own paths in life, <em>Black Widow<\/em> puts female issues front and center without ever making it feel forced or preachy. The plot accompanying those themes feels small by MCU standards, but that simplicity is a refreshing change of pace for a franchise that\u2019s too often about saving the world.<\/p>\n<p><em>Black Widow<\/em> will have fans grieving Natasha (and Johansson\u2019s performance) all over again, and while her solo feature should have arrived years ago it\u2019s a case of better late than never as the movie delivers one last hurrah for our favorite Russian ex-assassin. It\u2019s a fun, warm, and thrilling goodbye and the most sincere blockbuster about the importance of family you\u2019ll see all year.<\/p>\n<p><strong><em>Black Widow releases in theaters and <a rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.disneyplus.com\/movies\/black-widow\/3VfTap90rwZC\">on Disney+<\/a> (with Premier Access) on July 9th.<\/em><\/strong>\n<\/div>\n<blockquote><p><strong><span style=\"color: #ff6600;\">If you liked the article, do not forget to share it with your friends. 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