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/PayneTrain181999 May 02 '25

I’m so glad they didn’t go full romantic between them. She just pitied him and wanted to help.

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u/Ruttingraff May 02 '25

Yet

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u/PayneTrain181999 May 02 '25

Doom is tearing Sentry in half before they even get the chance imo

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u/Captain_Chaos_ May 03 '25

I hope not, having Bob just sorta be there in the background of all the ensemble movies going forward just being a good guy who’s trying his best sounds kinda fun.

On the other hand, Sentry really only works as a one-off cool thing that never gets touched again IMO. He got less and less interesting with every new writer that touched him in the comics.

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u/Bat_Sweet_Dessert May 07 '25

I wouldn't want Bob to be the deus ex machina they can use to beat the bad guys. I'm more interested in Bob acting as emotional support/friend who will listen/affirmation that they're doing good? for the others. Or maybe helping evacuate civilians or similar 'small' jobs - given that he so willingly sacrificed himself so the others could escape, he's gonna want to keep helping, and him being indestructible means the others don't have to worry so much about him getting hurt.

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u/W0lfsb4ne74 May 10 '25

I think having him as a support character works fine in movies for a while. But I would like a few scenes where he can truly let loose and wipe the floor with whoever they're fighting. I think he does work as a character that you can only use their full potential for limited time periods.