Thunderbolts (2025)

A movie about C-list characters forced to work as a team against a superman rip-off. I wasn't thrilled about the idea when it was first announced, but my interest began to grow over time and the movie was actually pretty decent.

Florence Pugh is pretty good as Yelena. Even when playing a cold hard assassin, she has a lot more personality than Scarlett Johansson, who was always a huge bore to me. Wyatt Russell returns as his "dime-store" Captain America, doing way better than he did in that piece of crap Falcon and Winter Soldier show. David Harbour returns as the Red Guardian, the comic relief Russian version of Captain America, but he's likeable in most of his roles. Lewis Pullman plays Bob/Sentry/Void, and is also pretty good. It's always weird when these seemingly twinky actors take off their shirts and reveal a buff physique.

Sebastian Stan returns as the Winter Soldier, another boring character that Marvel likes to shove down our throats. But in this movie, he's actually... still pretty boring. What's truly ridiculous is that this brainwashed 100-year-old murderer is now a congressman? Well... that's actually pretty realistic now that I think about it.

This movie also features a lot of misdirection in its marketing, prominently featuring a certain character in the promotion that's barely in the movie at all, but it's no real loss considering that character was lame as hell and far from the comic origins.

An entertaining flick, a step in the right direction for Marvel, and featuring a pretty good ending, though the post-credits scenes everybody raves about aren't worth the hype.

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