Black Widow is a 2021 American superhero action film based on the Marvel Comics character of the same name with the director by Cate Shortland. Produced by Marvel Studios and distributed by Walt Disney Studios Motion Pictures, it is the the 24th film in the Marvel Cinematic Universe (MCU). It Produced by Kevin Feige from a screenplay by Eric Pearson, and stars Scarlett Johansson as Natasha Romanoff / Black Widow alongside Florence Pugh, David Harbour, O-T Fagbenle, Olga Kurylenko, William Hurt, Ray Winstone, and Rachel Weisz. This film follows after the events of Captain America: Civil War (2016) when that battles to S.H.I.E.L.D. limited has begin to against Black Widow has officially begins to Defeat Taskmaster officially for good to be catch Red dust, an item has been confirmed that Russia.
Black Widow was released on July 9, 2021 by Marvel Studios in the United States, both theaters and Disney+ with premiere access as the first film to be Phase 4. It received positive reviews from film critics, with praise for the performances, particularly those of Johansson and Pugh, and the action sequences. The film also broken box office records with $67 million globally in the Disney+ premiere access paying, with grossed $80.4 million in the opening weekend, $183.7 million in the United States, $196.1 million in other territories, for the worldwide total of $379.8 million against its $200 million budget, but making it a box office success. In July 2021, Johansson filed a lawsuit against Disney over the simultaneous release, which was settled two months later.
Plot[]
In 1995, Russian undercover agents, super-soldier Alexei Shostakov and Black Widow Melina Vostokoff pose as a normal family in Ohio, along with their surrogate daughters Natasha Romanoff and Yelena Belova. When the mission to steal S.H.I.E.L.D. intel is complete, the family escapes to Cuba to rendezvous with their boss Dreykov, who has Romanoff and Belova put through the Red Room for training, while Shostakov is imprisoned in Russia. Years pass and Romanoff defects to S.H.I.E.L.D. after bombing Dreykov's office, apparently killing him and his young daughter Antonia.
In 2016, Romanoff is a fugitive for violating the Sokovia Accords. She escapes from U.S. Secretary of State Thaddeus Ross and flees to a safehouse in Norway set up by Rick Mason. Meanwhile, Belova kills a rogue former Black Widow, only to come in contact with a substance called Red Dust that removes her from the Red Room's mind control. She sends the antidote to Romanoff hoping she will return to help Belova free the other Widows. When Romanoff unknowingly drives off with the antidote, she is attacked by Taskmaster, who is after the Red Dust. Romanoff manages to evade Taskmaster and learns that the Dust came from Belova. The two reunite in Budapest, duel to a truce, and then are attacked by Black Widows. Romanoff learns Dreykov is still alive and the Red Room is still active. Romanoff and Belova evade the Widows and Taskmaster before meeting Mason, who supplies them with a helicopter.
Romanoff and Belova break Shostakov out of prison to learn Dreykov's location. He tells them to speak with Vostokoff, who lives on a farm in Russia, where she developed the mind control process used on the Widows. There, Belova reveals that while they were not a real family, she believed they were so. Vostokoff gives away their location to Dreykov, whose agents arrive and take them to the Red Room, an aerial base.
As Vostokoff and Romanoff used face mask technology to switch places before being captured, Vostokoff is able to help free Shostakov, Belova and herself from their restraints, while a disguised Romanoff confronts Dreykov. Romanoff learns Taskmaster is Antonia, who suffered damage so severe that Dreykov had to put a chip in her head, turning her into the perfect soldier. Romanoff attempts to kill Dreykov, but fails to harm him due to a pheromone lock he has installed in every Widow. that he controls Widows worldwide via his desk console. Romanoff intentionally breaks her nose, severing a nerve in her nasal passage to negate the pheromone and then attacks Dreykov. Shostakov battles Antonia, while Vostokoff attempts to take out the ship's engine and Belova searches for the other Widows, who are sent to protect Dreykov. Together, Shostakov and Belova lock Antonia in a secure room.
Dreykov escapes as the Widows attack Romanoff, but Belova creates a Red Dust bomb that releases the Widows from mind control. Romanoff gets into the control desk and copies the locations of the other Widows worldwide just as the ship begins to explode and fall. Before leaving the control room, Romanoff picks up the two surviving vials of Red Dust, and then frees Antonia from the locked room. Vostokoff and Shostakov escape via a plane just as Belova takes out Dreykov's escape ship, killing him. Romanoff gives Belova a parachute before battling Antonia through the sky. After landing, Romanoff uses a vial of Red Dust on Antonia, freeing her from servitude. The freed Widows arrive as Belova, Vostokoff, and Shostakov say goodbye to Romanoff. She gives Belova the last Red Dust vial and the portable drive, telling her to find and free the other, still mind-controlled, Widows. As they leave with Antonia, Romanoff awaits Ross and his men, who have arrived to apprehend her. Two weeks later, Romanoff reunites with Mason, who supplies her with a quinjet. She leaves, intending to free the detained Avengers on the Raft.
In a post-credits scene set after Romanoff's death, Belova encounters Contessa Valentina Allegra de Fontaine at Romanoff's grave and receives her next assignment: take down Clint Barton, the man "responsible" for Romanoff's death.
Cast[]
- Scarlett Johansson as Natasha Romanoff/Black Widow
- Ever Anderson as Young Natasha Romanoff
- Florence Pugh as Yelena Belova/Black Widow
- Violet McGraw as Young Yelena Belova
- David Harbour as Alexei Shostakov/Red Guardian
- O-T Fagbenle as Rick Mason
- Olga Kurylenko as Antonia Dreykov/Taskmaster
- Ryan Kiera Armstrong as Young Antonia Dreykov
- William Hurt as Commander Thaddeus Ross
- Ray Winstone as General Dreykov
- Rachel Weisz as Melina Vostokoff/Black Widow
- Michelle Lee as Oksana
- Liani Samuel as Lerato
- Nanna Blondell as Ingrid
- Olivier Richters as Ursa Major
- Kurt Yue as Ross Lieutenant
- Simona Zivkovska as Black Widow #1
- Erin Jameson as Black Widow #2
- Shaina West as Black Widow #3
- Yolanda Lynes as Black Widow #4
- Claudia Heinz as Black Widow #5
- Fatou Bah as Black Widow #6
- Jade Ma as Black Widow #7
- Jade Xu as Black Widow #8
- Lucy Jayne Murray as Black Widow #9
- Lucy Cork as Black Widow #10
- Eniko Fulop as Black Widow #11
- Lauren Okadigbo as Black Widow #12
- Zoltan Nagy as Budapest Clerk (cameo)
- Dawid Szatarski as Red Room Scientist #1 (cameo)
- Cali Nelle as Red Room Scientist #2 (cameo)
- Jeremy Renner as Clint Barton/Hawkeye (cameo in a post-credit scene)
- Julia Louis-Dreyfus as Valentina Allegra de Fontaine (cameo in a post-credit scene)
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