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As the perspective is everything in reviewing movies I should explain myself from MCU movies, I'm an 80% MCU fan and 20% DCU fan, on the other hand, I'm a 60% DC characters fan and 40% Marvel characters fan, and of course "Black Widow" isn't in my top 10 favorite Marvel characters list -which is doesn't really exist but if I did it someday I'd never put Black Widow in it- So you should know that I'm not the number one Black Widow fan and so does the majority of people because she has never been introduced as a main character on the silver screen before.

So if this was not an MCU movie, I wouldn't watch it

But let put that beside and let's talk cinema.

The action was lousy, and I blame whoever put Cate Shortland in this project, she has never made action movies before and that's her first time to be on a blockbuster movie, and unfortunately, she failed to give us a single good action sequence.

There's a scene, Scarlett Johansson's stunt double face is fully clear and much more stupid things.

Editing was trying to hide the actresses' laziness and the director's lack of experience by fast cutting the scenes to hide stunt doubles faces but that made the action sequences experience even worse, I almost had a headache.

The movie's CGI is cheap, it really can harm your eyes, in 2021 and they did that how come? Hands down it's one of the worst.

I saw a lot of people talking about Florence Pugh's performance, and that surprised me, not if she was bad or something but you guys saw better performance than David Harbour's? He stole the show He's the best thing in the movie, his comedy scenes killed me, honestly without him I'd rate the movie 4/10 Scarlett Johansson's performance is Scarlett doing Black Widow, not Scarlett doing Nicole from "Marriage Story": A lot of superhero poses and 0% effort of doing action scenes without a stunt double.

Rachel Weisz's performance was just meh.

In any movie -especially a superhero one- I'd love to see a good villain like Thanos or Loki and so on.

In this movie, I saw a bad-written one, he has absolutely no motive for his actions, I know he's a metaphor for masculinity and how a lot of men shutting females' mouths and control their actions, but the metaphor wasn't enough, I wished for more, I wished for a better character with real motive.

In the end, it's not a bad movie, but it shall have been a better one.

"Home is just a word? or is it something you carry within you?" I'd love to start my review with this quote, it sends all the messages the movie has tried to send. The movie talks about a woman who has lost her home, husband, job and everything actually and she decided to go on a journey to live the nomad life and the story goes along to see her trials for redemption, redemption from loneliness. And the movie pointed to very important topics like capitalism and how it makes people waste their whole life doing something and literally die without doing anything they wanted to do and not enjoy a second from their lives.

I really loved how the music started and ended in a specific time, I tried to figure out what is the right expression to tell and I ended up with "The music was talking" it was speaking Fern's emotions and asking questions then answering at the end of the scene.

An essay won't be enough for me to tell you how much I loved the cinematography. actually seeing the sky of the American West is enough, I felt the beauty of the nature of the American West from my home in Cairo.

Frances McDormand's performance was a real A class one, she is stunning -as always- and it won't be a surprise if she won her third Oscars with this performance. and by talking about the performances, Are those people actors or they're just real persons who live this lifestyle I would be surprised if I know they're actors, and if they're then Chapeau to the casting choices they mastered their roles.

But there was something a little bit confusing for me, the movie was slow-paced and that's not what confused me, I was confused with the rapid development, there were some scenes that are just going the camera with Fern's walks or something then cut then Fern in another place with different people. and that's all I hated about this movie.

I saw the hate wave before I watch the movie and I'm thankful for this, I decreased my expectations and I started watching it, and I was surprised that it's not that bad, it's not either good but it was just meh, not THE WORST MOVIE EVER. I was expecting that I was going to watch another feminism movie that's just like "we're women, we're powerful and don't need men, men are trash" but there wasn't anything like this and I appreciate that they didn't go this way.

As I started with the pros, the thing I liked most in the movie was the love story between Wonder Woman and Steve, it was fun and beautiful. And actually that was all what I liked about the movie.

I can start talking about what I hate about the movie and they're not a lot but each point I hated a lot! The CGI was really bad, the flying scenes and the running scenes were so disturbing, there were some scenes I literally screamed MY EYES like Phoebe. The second point I want to establish some things, can we all agree that is Gal Gadot is a very very pretty woman? I don't think that anyone would disagree, Okay now can we all agree that is she is a terrible actress? She was bad, not just in this movie, in her entire career.

I won't give any comment about Pedro Pascal's performance because why the hell is he doing a white male character? his face was annoying and all what I was thinking about when I saw him was hmm is he wearing a wig? why does a Latino actor play a white male character and why his son is an Asian?

The last act was like we messed a lot huh? bring it all back like something never happened, and that was done in a super cringe way.

In the end, I didn't hate the movie, and I didn't like it either, it was just another superhero movie nothing special about it.