Directed by: Jake Schrier
Starring: Florence Pugh, Wyatt Russell, Julia Louis-Dreyfus, Lewis Pullman, David Harbour, Sebastian Stan
Thunderbolts are now the new Avengers and, despite their efforts, they simply lack the personality of the originals. Like Avengers movies, there is plenty of action and things blowing up, but the heart is missing. The movie perks up when it delves into the nature of Bob (Pullman), an ordinary man who was the victim of an experiment which will turn him into an invincible villain who can annihilate the heroes, but that is also resolved haphazardly.
The movie begins with Yelena Belova (Pugh), sister of the late Black Widow, feels dispirited and disengaged from her work as a hired gun for the opportunistic villain Valentina (Louis-Dreyfus), who is trying to cover up her misdeeds from a government committee by gathering up all of the other mercenaries she has hired and trying to eradicate them. They include U.S. Agent aka John Walker (Russell) and Ghost (Hannah John-Kamen), and soon after the attempt to kill them fails, they are on the run with Yelena's father Red Guardian (Harbour) and the Winter Soldier (Stan) joining the outlaws. Oh, and let's not forget Bob, who stumbles into the plot and is in the wrong place at the wrong time, or is he?
There is little about Thunderbolts which is memorable or makes you care. The heroes are colorless, even though Harbour tries the hardest to wring laughs out of this material. The Winter Soldier has been seen in much better Avengers movies than this one. Based on the recent Avengers track record, it seems the movies have run out of gas.
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