Thunderbolts* - 雷霆特攻隊*

Thunderbolts* (雷霆特攻隊*) is an 2025 film. The movie stars an ensemble cast of Florence Pugh, Sebastian Stan, Wyatt Russell, Olga Kurylenko, Lewis Pullman, Geraldine Viswanathan, Chris Bauer, Wendell Pierce, David Harbour, Hannah John-Kamen, and Julia Louis-Dreyfus. This movie is part of the MCU and is the 36th installment.

Florence Pugh plays Yelena Belova, a black widow assassin trained in the red room. Yelena is a merc for hire and works for Julia Louis-Dreyfus's character of Valentina Allegra de Fontaine, the director of the CIA. Yelena is sent on missions to assassinate targets for Valentina. When Valentina sends her other 3 operatives to the same spot to take out a target. Things don't work out and they assemble to get out of the situation. Bucky and the Red Gaurdian find out through his sources and goes to target location as well. Bucky and the assembled than have to assemble to take down Valentina who has been playing them all along. Will they be able to right the wrongs of Valentina?



I have not been consistent with Marvel lately and missed a couple of movies and all of the recent TV stuff on D+. As the internet chatter as been, I would agree that this Thunderbolts movie is a bit of a return to form. Will Fantastic Four and Doomsday rectify everything? It's hard to say as there was so much crap for so long.



I was not bored watching and the charater development was quite quick but satisfying. We have seen all these characters in the past and this movie gives us just a little more of what and who they are now. When they assembled, it made sense.

And you may have already found out that this movie is about depression and how to handle it. The story of the void and its shame rooms is evidence of that. And the film goes about dealing with this subject.

Not even a week in, the current cast is running around calling themselves "The New Avengers". Yikes! Cannot wait for the drama to unfold.

Black Widow - 黑寡婦

Black Widow (黑寡婦) is an 2021 film. The movie stars Scarlett Johansson, Florence Pugh, David Harbour, and Rachel Weisz. The supporting cast include Olga Kurylenko, William Hurt, and Ray Winstone. This movie was set for release in May of 2020, but was push back more than a year because of the Covid-19 pandemic. The movie is based on the events after Captain America: Civil War (美國隊長3:英雄內戰/美国队长3:英雄内战).



Scarlett Johansson plays Natasha Romanoff, a Black Widow, Florence Pugh plays Yelena Belova, a Black Widow, David Harbour plays Alexei Shostakov, the Red Guardian of the USSR, and Rachel Weisz plays Melina Vostokoff, a Black Widow. After the events of Captain America: Civil War (美國隊長3:英雄內戰/美国队长3:英雄内战), Natasha is now on the run and makes her way to Europe. Things get interesting when Natasha bumps into her "sister" Yelena. They get attacked there and talk about the old times. Eventually, they decide to go on a mission to free the other gals in the Black Widow program. However, they need some help to pull something this big off, so they go searching for the Mom and Dad, Alexie and Melina. Together, they must find the Black Widow's home base and free them. So much fun!

There was much hype for Black Widow in 2020 and than it was not released. After over a year on the shelf, when it made its debut, I think there was too much hype for this movie to live up to. Generally, after the release, this movie quickly lost steam and wasn't talk about much. There are also more Marvel items out at the same time now that they could be taking hype from each other. As Loki's TV series was on at the same time. I did enjoy it for the action and to get the back story on the Black Widows that had been reference many times before. I think this movie would have been better served in the 2018 or 2019 era. Go watch it, it is still a Marvel film and was well made.

I think there were some Asian actors as part of the Black Widows, but I did not notice any prominent Asian faces in this movie.