A spinoff of late stage Avengers. I've been out of the MCU universe for awhile, but I loved Florence Pugh as Yelena in both Hawkeye and Black Widow. Here she is working as a mercenary and comes to find out that her patron (CIA special director Julia Louis-Dreyfus) has sent all the mercenaries on staff to kill each other in an attempt to clean up evidence of bad stuff. So it is a bunch of misfits that self identify as "not fitting in" who accidentally awaken the god of all misfits, only to find that the bipolar nature of his mental health makes everything really bad. "Can't have the good without the bad". So maybe it is an attempt to explore the space of workplace stress, mental health and the importance of a good community. Or maybe it is all that as a means to make another superhero movie. Felt like the latter, with the important character and story pieces filling a second priority. But in this age of watching tent-pole films at midnight on my couch, this is not bad.
3 stars (out of 5)
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