 After being snubbed her own feature-length film for well over a decade and then having to wait over a year To finally hit the big screen the day has finally arrived when Scarlett Johansson gets to grace audiences as Black Widow The real question today. Was it worth the wait? I don't know. I haven't seen it joking. I saw it like an hour ago I really liked it Disney's gonna send me a check right Marvel slash Disney has gotten a lot of hell a lot of grief for not featuring Black Widow in her own film for I mean up until now Part of me is like how dare they she's one of the original Avengers and then another part of me is like I kind of understand She's Black Widow. She's been in like more films than most of these guys have so yes This was well earned and very overdue, but like just to get in the mindset of the corporate overlords for a second I can see where they're thinking. She's not Wonder Woman You know people know Wonder Woman. That's a household name Black Widow Scarlett Johansson, we know she plays like a sexy hot Super spy or something that that's legitimately all I knew until I saw Black Widow today I should have started with this but this is going to be spoiler free no spoilers whatsoever So you're fine here. Sometimes I get a little loose with the lips and I I say things I shouldn't but it's typically because they're movies that I just Don't like and I because I have such an ego on me And I think that my opinion is more valid than everyone else's that I don't really care to just let things go But I'll I'll be very I'll be very subtle here. Let's talk basics. Let's get to the brass tacks The movie's over two hours. The runtime is two hours and 13 minutes Shave off some time for credits, but people are gonna sit by because there is a post credit scene It's not good, but it's there. Okay, the movie itself is good. It's it's really good I'd say it's upper echelon of the mcu and where I sit with that personally is you have infinity war It's kind of the king. He's got the crown on you have the two guardians of the galaxy films, which I love Then you have Thor Ragnarok You have og iron man and I would put black widow I put black widow somewhere right up there next, you know, maybe throw a winter soldier up in there I guess and I realize this is maybe a hot take because people love winter soldier I prefer black widow to it this for some reason connected with me more I don't know if it's maybe because uh, you know, I'm a teenage girl who was raised in a red room That might have something to do with it or it's just the fact that there's this whole Fun family aspect like a totally dysfunctional family angle going on here And I will say whenever scarlet's bouncing off these other actors It's it's just firing on all cylinders to use an overused term To back up we're talking about the length of the film at over two hours It's great. I could have watched longer and that's a testament to a good movie that you're having a fun time watching If if you can sit by for two plus hours and think Let's keep this ride going. All right. You did a good job. Kate shortland Don't recognize that name. That's fair. She's only directed to like three other things and they appear to be indies from what I could tell I had never heard of them. So therefore Indies because again, I have an ego on me and if it's not something that I recognize right away It's it's pretty much dismissed as a as a lower tier film Like something that goes to the festivals and I don't want to think about not to like stir up anything But I have to point something out now There there's been like a trend in Hollywood whenever a male director is is directing females that there's this whole male gaze thing going on with the camera You know where the the camera is a little lower than it needs to be It's it's getting a nice view of the the ample behind on some of the actresses. It lingers uh No one told kate this because she's all in on the lingering. There's a multitude of shots That's really showcasing the work that scarlett joe hansons put in to maintain that great figure Not just her but all the actresses really I'm not complaining I just want to point it out that there might be some hypocrisy there or I don't I don't again I don't really care. I've just heard these things online and people get outraged about things that I don't care about So therefore I need to bring them up so they get outraged again But not at me don't direct it at me direct it at kate directed at hollywood And she knew what she was doing too. There's no excuse There's a scene in the film where natasha is bending over to put a package in the car And the camera is like not even on the package at all It's on the other package and it's it's frankly on the one that I'm more interested in This camera is just like It just locks here for an extended period of time and I even looked over at um at uh my brother. I'm like what What are we filming right now? What's happening? Did they forget to shut the camera off and we're just leaving it in So pervert men out there and and women you're gonna enjoy it When I walked home and my wife asked how the film was Uh, I said it was actually really good. I enjoyed it a lot And then the first thing she follows up with did you just check out scarlet joe hansen the whole time and i'm like no There was other Actresses that I looked at too. I think that might be the best transition i've ever come up with So let's talk about these ladies. We have florins pew in this plane romanoff sister She is fantastic Uh, I mean i'm team scar joe all the way, but florins was awesome Very funny very cool Very awesome at combat. I mean it just just all the all the things the other comic relief comes from david harbour who's hilarious in this I realized this transition wasn't done as well this segway because I I didn't really talk about the other women I wanted to talk about rachel weiss. We'll get to her david harbour though. I mean, he's just a big dude He's he's a russian captain america who's who's kind of past his prime You know, he does the whole mr. Incredibles thing trying on the suit. That's clearly too tight Uh, he's great There's nothing really bad here. I'd say that The first 20 minutes is a little rocky. It's a little slow to get going I think if you're gonna trim anything you could have found some fat there to trim But even then it's it's it moves quick enough You get to know the family a little bit you get to know the history And at the end of the day, that's what I wanted to get out of this. I wanted to learn more about romanoff I wanted to learn more about her her backstory without it feeling like those early mcu films iron man notwithstanding But you know, like captain america the first Thor They're just they're just kind of tedious for the most part and I think this does a good job of alleviating some of that You know that normality that we've gotten from all of these past Origin films not even just mcu origins, but in general it does a good job of kind of staving off some of the monotony there Now rachel weiss The beauty that she is from the mummy, which I will always love her in Solid here. There is some weird you know the I don't know if they're saying d aging it just looked like she had a shit ton of makeup caked on in the early scenes Same with david harbour where they're trying to make them look young. Um, it starts out in a you know, like a 20 years earlier situation That was a little like whatever. I mean a little a little a little weird, but otherwise Rachel weiss is great. She's still a treasure. So we established that the pacing is great. The actors are awesome What about taskmaster the villain? I didn't know much about this character Outside of that crappy avengers video game that came out a year ago or however long it's been Feels like an eternity. Honestly. What a what a disaster of a game, but we'll move past that Very cool fights with the character. I there's a I saw the reveal coming I guess would be a a bit of a negative, you know the person's in a mask the whole time So it's like who could it possibly be? I think it's pretty obvious Again, though, it doesn't take away anything. It's not like they they play it up to be this huge massive reveal It just kind of happens and you're like, yeah, that's that's about what I figured again I don't read comics so I can't speak to that type of base if they're gonna be mad about this character at all like they were with the um, what was it the uh, Not the Mandalorian. That's a Star Wars show. Not the Manchurian candidate. That's a couple of movies The mandor? No, that's a horrible profession where they kind of make fun of bulls. I remember he's like an exotic fruit The mandarin I don't know if that's exotic. I think general audiences going to a superhero film are like me They want a fun good time at the movies where you can purve out on some good-looking people And see some awesome action. So how's the action in this? It's actually really good Scarlett Johansson whipping around guys like flipping around their necks and using her momentum to throw people It happens you get it and you get it from her sister too. So they're both doing this They're like double teaming guys spinning around that. I heard how that sounded There's a swath of fights here 1v1s. We got whole teams of bad guys versus one or two people There's car chase scenes. There's there's people falling out of the sky fighting I eat it up. Does it get bonkers at times? You better believe it buster. Does it go full fast nine? No, it still stays somehow more realistic than that And this movie features people with actual super abilities. So it has more of an excuse to go wild Visually, it looks really nice I'd say it fits more into the russo brothers cinematography than that of like the josweden A little bit more grounded little grittier I just I don't know this this thing was just really surprising. I went in thinking, okay I'll probably enjoy it. I like almost all the marvel mcu films. None of them are really Insultingly bad. I mean on their worst days. They're Thor 2, you know They're they're just I could watch it But I don't really care at all and maybe it's because I've had a string of bad luck watching just Awful films just garbage on netflix And then that one movie on amazon prime that people were mad that I didn't like very much. Well, you know what? This helped me. Okay. This this spiritually helped me This emotionally helped me to see a movie where it looks like a little bit of care was put in A little bit of craft was on display Actors were acting stunt work was taking place Choreography was there. It was present. Lastly, there's the soundtrack, which I also think was pretty damn good Usually it's kind of the last thing that really stands out unless it's something that's really iconic Like a drastic park theme or jaws This doesn't have you know, it it falls in line I think with a lot of the superhero stuff where there's a lot of big Basie sounds, you know the kind of Han Zimmer stuff going on Um, and it it sounds good. It's cool. It's slick But it's just there's not really a theme that I would say really wowed me in that department. It just it's just there It's doing its job. My final score for black widow brace yourselves. These scores are always super accurate I really care about what I give films. I'm giving black widow 9 out of 10. Natasha Romanov headstones I really freaking liked it now pay me disney Wow, what a truly remarkable review if you liked it Go ahead and hit the like button and feel free to subscribe if you haven't to adam does movies. I'm adam That's me. I do I run the channel solo. I'm writing solo, which is a song This has really gone off the rails feel free to join me on patreon at patreon.com slash adam does movies or right here on youtube You can you can hit the join button and become a member It really helps me out because like I said, I'm doing this stuff weekly. It's it's nuts