Marvel’s Black Widow

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The long-awaited first Black Widow film in phase four of Marvel’s Cinematic Universe tells the backstory of Natasha Romanoff (Scarlett Johansson), a KGB assassin turned Avenger who constantly finds herself on the run. Following the events of Captain America: Civil War, a tragedy from Romanoff’s past comes back to haunt her.

After multiple delays, Black Widow finally debuted in theaters and on Disney Plus in July, simultaneously setting box office and streaming records for 2021. Disney+ Premier Access subscribers can watch it now, but everyone else will have to wait a couple of months.

Black Widow Marvel OVERVIEW

In Marvel Studios’ action-packed spy thriller “Black Widow,” Natasha Romanoff aka Black Widow confronts the darker parts of her ledger when a dangerous conspiracy with ties to her past arises. Pursued by a force that will stop at nothing to bring her down, Natasha must deal with her history as a spy and the broken relationships left in her wake long before she became an Avenger.

“Black Widow” finally reaches screens big and small after a delay of more than 14 months, during which time Marvel’s banner has been carried via streaming on Disney+. While that stretch has likely fueled pent-up demand, it has also demonstrated that the comics-based pop-culture titan can tell a variety of stories, with this one approximating the formula of a Jason Bourne movie.

The approach largely works, in more small-boned fashion, thanks in part to the crispness of the action, whose fight sequences have as much in common with the kinetic aspect of the Bourne saga as superhero-style pyrotechnics, although there’s a fair amount of that too. Yet what really defines the film is meeting the title character’s other “family,” whose members are equal parts colorfully eccentric and lethal.
Nestled during the window between “Captain America: Civil War” and “Avengers: Infinity War,” the film opens with an extended prologue that fills in additional details about the young Natasha Romanoff’s childhood and origins.
Jumping ahead, the plot finds Scarlett Johansson’s assassin-turned-Avenger on the run from the government, which leads to a reconnection with her spy family and the discovery of a nefarious program — used to control other “widows,” trained with her special skills — that needs to be stopped.
Like the Bourne movies, Natasha was the product of a shadowy government outfit rooted in the mindset of the Cold War, only from the Russian side. That includes a ruthless mastermind named Dreykov (Ray Winstone) and her desire both to atone for the past and stamp out the source that caused it. – CNN