For “Thunderbolts*”, Marvel threw so many things into its new branding event, including its new branding event, mysterious asterisks, guinea pigs, comic villains, depressed superheroes, NEPO babies, and David Simon's “Wire” veterans. The results are appropriately interesting, sometimes moving, determined and stylistic. The storyline shows the jigs and zags between firing a gun and dropping bodies, and the tones zip everywhere. Holding it more or less is the cast where Florence Pugh wins her Tom Cruise, David Harbor plays the raucous Russian clown and Sebastian Stan Winking in Donald J. Trump.
The final flashy turn was the turn of the biopic “Apprentice” as a young Trump, Stan has returned as Bucky Burns, who you might know as a Winter Soldier. The cool guy who is a resident of this film, Bucky is a soulful warrior with metal arms with prosthetic limbs that are well visible on motorcycles, and is here primarily to provide franchise continuity. Currently in Congress, Bucky is working with Rep. Gary of Wendell Pierce to defeat CIA chief Valentina Allegra de Fontaine (another Marvel returnee Julia Louis Drefes). Yes, she's bad news as she oversees a secret program from a mountain hideaway worthy of a bond villain.
If you're not a comic book fan and have never heard of Thunderbolt before being dug up for screen services, you're not alone. First introduced on Page in 1997, the group is reapplied here, and is a Tetty, arrogant, and ultimately likeable anti-hero for redeemable rogues with hard stories and bloody hands. (The body count is high, Goa is sanitized.) Most certainly interesting are the dry, sardonic Yelena Belova (puu) and the excited Alexen Shostakov/Red Guardian (fantastic port). Scarlett Johansson's black widow sister and father, they are Soviet-trained tough enough to climb the superhero in her honorable 2021 flick.
There's always a lot going on in Marvel movies, and the filmmakers are here. Screenwriters are Eric Pearson and Joanna Caro, and directed by Jack Schreier. Chris Bauer, the familiar face of “The Wire,” plays the security-type Holt, while Lewis Pullman plays Bob, a mysterious beginner. (His father is actor Bill Pullman.) Other return faces include Wyatt Russell (his people are Goldie Horn and Kurt Russell). Like Hannah John Kamen's AVA Star/Ghost and others, he mainly has backups for Pooh.
