To start with the negatives: Black Widow is something of a redundant exercise. Even then, it is fair to say that the delay in getting the character onto the screen in a solo outing would not have helped the end result. Working together they will look to bring down the Red Room, Dreykov, and the mysterious Taskmaster figure that found and nearly killed Natasha when she was in isolation. Learning the Red Room is still active, Natasha and Yelena work to reunite with Melina, and to spring Alexei from prison. The viewer learns of the truth of the Budapest mission so heavily referenced by Romanoff and Hawkeye, and come to understand why this character has carried so much pain and guilt for her action. The two meet up in Budapest, with their first encounter being driven by distrust for each other’s motives.
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Sending the antidote, through an intermediary, to Natasha, she hopes that the former Red Room agent will return to free the other widows. Meanwhile Yelena Bulova (Florence Pugh) – who we will discover to have been the younger of the two girls – is still an active Black Widow, working in assassination missions, until she encounters an antidote that removes the brainwashing the girls undergo as part of their training. We see her skills both of escape and of blending in as she moves from country to country. Moving to 2016, it is confirmed that Romanoff was the eldest of the children, and she is now on the run from US Secretary of State, Thaddeus Ross (William Hurt). The family are then split up with both “daughters” being put through the Red Room training referred to many times by Natasha in the previous films, while Alexei is imprisoned.
Escaping the US, they rendezvous with their handler, Dreykov (Ray Winstone). The children are not related to either adult, or to each other, and have simply been placed in America for espionage purposes – the steal SHIELD intel. “Mother” is, in the event, Melina Vostkoff (Rachel Weisz) – herself a black widow operative, while “Father” is Alexei Shostakov (David Harbour), a Russian super-solder once known as the Red Guardian. They find themselves forced to run, as it becomes apparent that they are Russian agents, and their covers have been blown. A seemingly normal family of mother, father, and two young daughters are living in Ohio. READ MORE: Occupation: Rainfall – Film ReviewĪll of this follows a prologue taking place in 1995.
In the even our story takes place soon after the events of Civil War, with Natasha Romanoff on the run after her role in disregarding the Sokovia Accords, which had set regularity boundaries for superheroes.
This on-screen death raised questions as to what this film would end up being given Marvel had no real track record for prequels, but definite form for resurrecting characters. That said, the character is well established, after having first appeared in 2010’s Iron Man 2, with regular appearances right to her demise in Avengers: Endgame. Black Widow is helmed by Australian director Cate Shortland: her fourth feature, none of the previous three particularly expensive projects. In line with this, Marvel has worked hard to diversify, with increasing opportunities for directors not normally associated with big budget studio offerings. This is now a well-oiled machine, with a consistency of product and of tone, that has developed in leaps and bounds since its uneven first phase. Even with the ongoing Covid Pandemic, and associated delays, Marvel Studios have now matched the output of EON’s James Bond series, with Black Widow its 24th entry a feat achieved after a mere 13 years (Bond has had since 1962 to produce its 24 official offerings to-date).
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