“I’m gonna go break a few of them out of prison, see if I can’t help patch things up.”

From Black Widow.

In 1994, young Natasha (Ever Anderson) was living with her parents, Melina (Rachel Weisz) and Alexei (David Harbour), and younger sister Yelena (Violet McGraw) in Ohio until they fled back to Russia with secret weapons information that Alexei stole. The success of the mission also meant the disbanding of the cover family that had provided the spies safety, and both Natasha and Yelena were sent to the Red Room to be trained by the ruthless Dreykov (Ray Winstone) to become Russian assassins. Twenty years later, Natasha (Scarlett Johansson) has joined the Avengers, but is currently hiding out after helping Captain America break the Socovian Accords. However, Yelena (Florence Pugh) is still working as a Black Widow, but when her target forces her to inhale a compound that frees her from the Red Room chemical-mind-control, she takes the other samples and runs from the other Widows. Yelena sends the compound to Natasha’s safehouse in Budapest, but Natasha doesn’t realize what she has until Dreykov sends his ultra-soldier, the Taskmaster, to get the compound from Natasha. After escaping and finding Yelena, Natasha learns that her attempt to kill Dreykov years ago only drove the Red Room into hiding, but Widows are still being trained… now with more deadly methods. The former sisters decide to kill Dreykov once she’s for all, but with no idea where the Red Room is, they break Alexei out of prison with the hope that the former Russian super soldier will know the location. The family reunion is incomplete though, as Alexei knows nothing except that Melina should know the Red Room’s location since she used to work for Dreykov. Reunited after a lifetime of pain and suffering, Natasha struggles to reconnect with the “parents” that handed her and Yelena over to become Widows. When the Taskmaster finds them again, all seems lost, but Natasha finally realizes that confronting her past is the only way to survive.

This long-awaited superhero adventure takes viewers on an action-packed look at an Avenger’s past. Johansson once again brings her tough and skilled character to life, but her interactions with Pugh, Harbour, and Weisz truly make the film. Marvel fanatics will love what Black Widow adds to the MCU, but any action fan will find the story captivating.

| Rated: PG-13 | Running Time: 134 minutes |Genre: action/superhero|

||Family Viewing||Cursing: 2 of 10|Nudity: 0 of 10|Sexuality: 0 of 10|Gore: 4 of 10

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