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This looks like it will be easily as big a hit as "The Marvels" or "Agatha All Along." The Disney Bomb Machine continues to churn out content.
 
A behind the scenes video showing practical effects and the actors doing their own stunts is probably much better marketing than another trailer would be.



Florence Pugh is good at jumping off buildings!
 
It's good, I liked it. Florence Pugh is a great actress and feels like a proper movie star so she makes an excellent lead. Lewis Pullman was really good as Bob too and the part with him defeating the manifestation of his dark side was quite moving. David Harbour gets a LOT of broad humour and, while it might be a bit much in places, he really goes for it and did make me laugh several times. He delivers on the emotional stuff with Yelena too. I like Hannah John-Kamen as a Ghost (yes she's beautiful it's not just that!) though I did wish they went into her character a bit more, like maybe show what she saw in the void or at least mention Bill Foster. On the other hand I liked that they didn't go into Bucky's backstory again because that's very much been done.

Taskmaster's death was a nice surprise moment though ultimately does'nt mean much since they only mention her once afterwards. Not really sure how well Val works as a villain, she feels too much like Selina Meyer a lot of the time. Giving her a void vision was a good idea but she dosn't really seem any different afterwards and it doesn't do much to recontextualise her actions.

Action is good - thanfully the editing isn't all choppy like some of these movies - with the fight against Sentry in the tower being the highlight. I found the murky colours a bit annoying in the first act when they're underground, it was hard to see things at times. Or I'm getting old! The void stuff looked good.

Overall it's good and feels like it has a lot more substance than the shallow nothing of things like Brave New World.
 
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