The latest Marvel film landed this week. We’re not Marvel die hards but we do love the films and seeing them in the cinema in the iSense rooms at our local Odeon is the best way to experience them in my opinion.
Thunderbolts* is everything you expect from a Marvel offering – big budget, incredible special effects, a great storyline, good guys, bad guys and lots of puny humans that need saving. It’s a tried and tested formula that never gets old. This time however there is a little twist – our good guys are former bad guys twisted round to the side of good by a diabolical politician. Some of the characters I recognised (Bucky, John Walker), most I didn’t and assume are new to the story. Like I said – I don’t have a great knowledge of Marvel canon I just enjoy the films.
The fight sequences in this film are excellent and the special effects are amazing. I particularly liked the darkness of The Void and how it crept through the city. Obviously it’s a metaphor for evil but as we learn as the film progresses, it is also more subtly a symbol of depression and loneliness and the insidious nature of that condition. Our descent into Bob’s trauma through Yelena is key to the whole film and is very moving.
Our band of intrepid heroes of course save the day and New York is restored (with a lot of cleaning up needed!) and there’s a comeuppance for the dodgy politician (played brilliantly by Julia Louis-Dreyfus) which is surely going to feature in future episodes.
As with all Marvel films I’ve seen, we were rewarded for sitting though the credits with a couple of extra minutes of the story, which I won’t go into but I’m looking forward to the next instalment already. 9/10
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