The lack of originality today exceeds Marvel and fully affect the saturated superhero cinema in general. So and all Thunderbolts* ends up being a breath of fresh air, especially if you take into account the most recent Marvel films and the uncertainty that generates knowing if its next great events, read the arrival of The fantastic four or the advertised new films of Avengersthey will live up to what this universe once knew.
Thunderbolts*, Marvel class B heroes save the day
The Thunderbolts* premise is simple (and already seen): a group of marginalized, which despite their mistakes of the past and their particular present, come together to face a greater danger and incidentally demonstrate the world (and particularly themselves) what they really are worth.
In this case, the class B group of (anti) Marvel heroes is made up of Yelena Belova (Florence Pugh), Bucky Barnes (Sebastian Stan), Red Guardian (David Harbor), Ghost (Hannah John-Kamen), Taskmaster (Olga Kurylenko) and John Walker (Wyatt Russell). Bob/Sentry will be joined, played by the actor Lewis Pullman.
As already said, at a time when Marvel fatigue has generated several failures in critics and box office, it is good to see A film where the characters acquire internal dimensions that go beyond their powers, including some emotional fragility.
Yelena is the center of the group and Pugh, is the protagonist of the film, in a performance that deepens the features that made it so captivating in Black Widow. If that 2021 film focused on the repair of the deteriorated substitute family ties and the controversial but at the same time binding the Brotherhood, Thunderbolts* shows Yelena reflecting on the emptiness of her life after the death of her adoptive sister.
He wonders if the void is only boredom or something more serious while performing a cleaning mission in a laboratory in Malaysia, eliminating material and human evidence that can be linked to the director of the CIA, Valentina Allegra de Fontaine (Julia Louis-Dreyfus), through the Oxe scientific research company. Yelena is drifting, which drives her to ask Valentina to reasigne a position of greater public presence.
The director of the CIA, of murky appearance, accepts with the condition that Yelena first destroys a latest Oxe installation, deep in a mountain. Valentina’s participation in experiments with humans in the search to create a new superhero has made it the target of a dismissal hearing directed by Congressman Gary (Wendell Pierce). Your assistant, Mel (Geraldine Viswanathan), work overtime to clean the tests.
Bucky Barnes, who is now a rookie congressman whose life how the winter soldier does not finish being left behind, is working behind the scene to help expose the secrets Valentina; See a potential asset in Mel.
In the installation of Oxe in the Yelena mountain he meets John Walker, whom she calls “Captain America of Ten Centavos” (here it is necessary to take into account the events of Falcon and the Winter Soldier); Ava Starr, also known as Ghost (villain in Ant-Man and the wasp); already taskmaster (villain in Black Widow). Each one was responsible for killing one within this particular quartet.
Upon realizing that Valentina has lay a deadly trap to eliminate more potential damage, the group joins and takes with a stunned and confused laboratory patient called Bob (Pullman) while escaping.
Alexei Shostakov, appears to get them out of there in his vehicle, the “red guardian”, which operates as a limousine service. But when a convoy of tanks threatens to end them while crossing the desert at full speed (Utah serves as a panoramic scenario), it is Bucky’s intervention on a motorcycle that saves them. Or so seems.
Marvel comics fans will surely already know the revelations about Bob and the reasons why he separates from the group. But for the general public, developments around the character and their affinity with Yelena will be an important part within history. Pullman’s performance reveals him as a sweet and shattered man who struggles to overcome his turbulent past, Bob is a complex figure through which the film explores mental instability and the struggle between light and darkness.
From the second half of the film, and mainly for its final act, the action moves to New York City, in what can be taken as a wink to the first Avengers movie. The director Jake Schreierknown for the success of Netflix BEEFand the writer’s duo formed by Eric Pearson, that co -written Thor: Ragnarock and Black Widowand Joanna Caloanother former beef whose credits also include multiple episodes of The Bear and Bojack Horsemanthey manage to shape a film that will surely leave a good feeling among fans and will also prepare them for the next great adventure (yes, there are post-créditos scenes)
Thunderbolts* stars Florence Pugh, Sebastian Stan, Wyatt Russell, Olga Kurylenko, Lewis Pullman, Geraldine Viscanathan, Chris Bauer, Wendell Pierce, with David Harbor, Hannah John-Kamen and Julia Louis-Dreyfus.
It is directed by Jake Schreier and produced by Kevin Feige. Louis d’Esito, Brian Chapek, and Jason Tamez are executive producers. The script was written by Eric Pearson and Joanna Calo, and the story is from Eric Pearson.
Thunderbolts* by Marvel Studios arrives at the cinemas in Latin America on April 30, 2025.
Source: Ambito
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