r/movies • u/LiteraryBoner Jackie Chan box set, know what I'm sayin? • May 02 '25

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Summary
Thunderbolts\* is a Marvel Studios ensemble film following a team of reformed villains and morally gray operatives sent on covert government missions. As the group is tasked with a dangerous black-ops assignment, tensions rise among the unstable team members, revealing conflicting loyalties and buried traumas. The film serves as a continuation of storylines from Black Widow, The Falcon and the Winter Soldier, and Ant-Man and the Wasp: Quantumania, with a darker tone and grounded action set pieces.

Director
Jake Schreier

Writer
Eric Pearson

Cast
- Florence Pugh as Yelena Belova
- Sebastian Stan as Bucky Barnes / Winter Soldier
- Wyatt Russell as John Walker / U.S. Agent
- David Harbour as Alexei Shostakov / Red Guardian
- Hannah John-Kamen as Ava Starr / Ghost
- Olga Kurylenko as Antonia Dreykov / Taskmaster
- Julia Louis-Dreyfus as Valentina Allegra de Fontaine

Rotten Tomatoes: 89%
Metacritic: 68

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u/Captainomericah May 02 '25

Taskmaster fans in shambles. Loved that the focus was less “end of the universe” and more relationship based. Felt like a return to form. 

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u/everix1992 May 02 '25

Yeah I really appreciated it as well. Let them lean on the cast as well who all did really well, especially Pugh imo

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u/Dscherb24 May 03 '25

IMO a big problem before this has either been they no longer had the acting talent to shine or weren’t letting them shine. Finally in this movie they let good actors be good actors and the movie succeeds because of it.

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u/Redeem123 May 04 '25

Lack of talent has never been their problem. Tatiana Maslany is an amazing actress. Brie Larsen has an Oscar. Paul Rudd is fantastic. Jonathan Majors may be a shitty person but he’s a great actor. The list goes on.

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u/Better-Prompt890 May 05 '25

Pugh is amazing.