黑寡妇marks Marvel’s return to theaters after a two-year forced hiatus. Directed by Cate Shortland (Berlin Syndrome, Lore）并由漫威经验丰富的埃里克·皮尔森（Eric Pearson）撰写（Ned Benson和Wandavision这部电影的Jac Schaeffer是延长的寒冷开放式，它可以追溯到娜塔莎·罗曼诺夫（Natasha Romanoff）的童年。以使您渴望的顺序美国人, we learn that Natasha spent three years undercover with a fake Russian spy family in America’s heartland. Her “father” was Alexei Shostakov (David Harbour, having so much fun it should be illegal), her “mother” was Malena (Rachel Weisz), and her little “sister” Yelena. (Young Nat is played by Ever Anderson and young Yelena by Violet McGraw.) Natasha looks like a Nineties kid, with Kool-Aid blue hair, a softball tee, and a bike she’s allowed to ride after dusk. But of course, it’s all a lie and soon Natasha’s family unit is broken up when their cover is blown. The film then does something few Marvel movies do: indulges in an opening credit sequence set to a minor-key cover of Nirvana’s “Smells Like Teen Spirit”. When we resume the action, it’s 2016 and the immediate aftermath ofCaptain America: Civil War, and we follow adult Natasha as she tries to piece her life back together (again) after the Avengers implode.
这部电影的放置很好奇。根本不可否认，MCU太晚了。纳塔莎（Natasha）是成立的复仇者之一，是多年来的唯一女人，应该早得多，而且应该得到黑寡妇在我们已经知道纳塔莎（Natasha）的终极命运后到达，确实让一些戏剧性的空气脱离了轮胎。这也迫使这部电影使笨拙的鞋子变成了一部电影，当它最不受更大的MCU讲故事的负担时，它脱颖而出。这部电影努力解决Natasha的台词结束游戏in which she claims she had no family before the Avengers, and it never quite lands on a sentiment that fully services this film AND that line. It’s just awkward. Much better is everything revolving around Natasha’s life outside the Avengers. The first half of黑寡妇is EXCELLENT, featuring some of the best character work in a Marvel movie ever. It’s not just all the new facets to Natasha that we see, it’s how immediately clear and interesting characters like Alexei and Yelena are. (Malena fares a little less well for reasons we’ll discuss in a minute.)
While Scarlett Johansson has never been better as Natasha than she is here, Florence Pugh as Yelena absolutely steals the show. Yelena is less contained than Natasha, more temperamental, more CHAOTIC. Pugh, donning a Russian accent that is, at least, not distracting, infuses Yelena with bristly little sister anger and gleeful assassin energy. Unlike Natasha, who wears her past’s burdens like a veil, Yelena has developed a more outwardly outgoing attitude and perverse sense of humor, ranking potential deaths by their relative coolness and constantly needling Natasha for “posing” during her Avenger fights. Yet, there are clear moments when we see how her own past weighs on Yelena, and how her personality has developed not as a series of façades against these hurts, but as an armored shell. Where Natasha turned inward, Yelena turned outward, and that allows the character—and Pugh—to have a lot more fun in the moment.
但是后来的第三幕黑寡妇arrives and with it comes the usual CG-nonsense. It feels especially out of place here, given the character-focused first half of the film and the more grounded, knuckle-busting fights between Natasha and the mysterious villain, Taskmaster.黑寡妇is begging for a smaller scale, more intimate finale that keeps character at the fore, so the sound and fury of a typical comic book climax is somewhat disappointing. The film also works hard to connect the entire hinge of Natasha’s arc on an off-hand reference inThe Avengersto “Dreykov’s daughter”. Not everything has to connect and forcing a significant chunk of this film to pay off a random insult from Loki is frustrating. Some riddles aren’t meant to be solved, it’s okay for a character like Natasha, who thrives in shadows, to remain a little mysterious. Not every single thing has to be explained and accounted for like these movies have an actual ledger to balance.
The other strike against黑寡妇是整部电影中缺少作品的感觉。例如，玛丽娜（Malena）的角色与亚历克西（Alexei）相比很薄，因为她的性格很薄。我们了解到，他是苏联唯一的超级义士，是为了在现场和宣传中与美国队长打击美国队长（1980年代的战斗上限可能是牛市T，或者可能是Cap的第二人生的诱人暗示）。同时，玛丽娜（Malena）是上一代黑寡妇，被同一计划塑造和虐待，使娜塔莎（Natasha）和耶琳娜（Yelena）造成了同一计划。她的科学大脑很大，但我们对她一无所知。感觉我们正在建立一个最终永远不会出现的启示。同样，我们遇到了娜塔莎（Natasha）的名为Mason（O-T Fagbenle）的阴暗朋友。他为娜塔莎（Natasha）的间谍生活提供了一些有趣的角色背景，但他对事件也完全多余。如果Marvel经常沉迷于有趣但毫无意义的侧面角色，那将是一回事，但它们却没有，这使Mason特别脱颖而出。再一次，感觉像是缺少一些揭示，这会使这个角色更充分地进入故事。
这证明了黑寡妇’s strengths, though, that it succeeds despite third act nonsense and those strange, not-quite-connecting story elements. This is as good of character work as Marvel has ever done, and in more ways than one,黑寡妇是漫威的返回。当Marvel电影更简单，剥夺了一点时，这是对MCU的开始的回报，而不是尽可能快地将900个情节的情节推向角色互动。在他们的十年以上的流行电影中，漫威制作了一些非常好的电影，一些比较是与橙色的苹果，因为某些角色之间的音调如此广泛 - 例如，纳塔莎·罗曼诺夫（Natasha Romanoff）和雷神黑寡妇脱颖而出是他们制作过的最好的电影之一。这绝对是以来最好的冬季士兵那不涉及空间。
黑寡妇从5月9日起在剧院中，并在迪士尼+上可用。
