This film has been a long time coming for the Marvel series as the back story of 'the Black Widow' i.e. the only female in the Avengers superhero films. Although there are more female characters, the Black Widow is the only character that continues throughout the series.
It's interesting as it's taken some 20 years to get to the space that we have now with female fight scenes that equal many male fight scenes i.e. looking very realistic and violent with lots of killings to boot. Not really my cup-of-tea but interesting to reflect on.
Even the back story of how she gets the name 'Black Widow' brings about the idea that to become an assassin one needs to have her female part removed (so that she becomes more male?) again, not my cup-of-coffee but it somehow defines how women can't really be defined as superheroes unless they are more male-like.
All in all, an interesting movie that was very late in coming i.e. after the fact, in that the Avengers movie series have all but finished and now there are loose ends in the storyline that need to be completed and this is one of them.
However there are bigger questions that still remain answered and that is the role of women as superheroes...
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