Between meals at fine restaurants there are also gas station sandwiches, and they arent so bad.
(No, I’m not going to spoil it here.)
You know, the ones with superheroes everyone has heard of.
Alexei Shostakov/Red Guardian (David Harbour), Ghost (Hannah John-Kamen), Bucky Barnes (Sebastian Stan), Yelena Belova (Florence Pugh), and John Walker (Wyatt Russell) in Marvel Studios' ‘Thunderbolts'.Credit:courtesy of Marvel Studios*
At least the lesser-tier element here is something the characters are aware of.
I can’t recall ever seeing a franchise film with this much self-criticism.
Our leader, Pugh’s Yelena Belova, has more than one moment of declaring “we suck!”
John Walker (Wyatt Russell), Bucky Barnes (Sebastian Stan), Alexei Shostakov (David Harbour), and Yelena Belova (Florence Pugh) in ‘Thunderbolts'.Courtesy of Marvel Studios*
which is amusing, until it isn’t.
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So, who are the Thunderbolts?
Her resume of nefarious deals and an association with the not-so-good O.X.E group have caught up with her.
And among the things that need to be destroyed?
Those aforementioned assassins, who are lured into Valentina’s high-tech vault.
It’s not just Yelena, whom you hopefully remember fromBlack Widow, but “U.S.
Naturally, this blows up in her face and unleashes a terrible threat into the world.
(Some gasped in the audience!)
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The Void (Lewis Pullman) in ‘Thunderbolts'.Marvel Entertainment/Youtube*
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Put bluntly, some scenes come together nicely, but many others don’t.
The fights are just okay.
