Film Review : Thunderbolts* (2025)

Marvel has finally put out their best film in years and something that will likely be the start to get over the dry hump they’ve had lately.

After finding themselves in a death trap set up for them we follow Yelena and a crew of misfit anti heroes who band together to go against the person who set them up for death. While that sounds extremely cliche and generic Thunderbolts really shines because of its characters. With Yelena at the forefront we get shown a world post Avengers where heroes aren’t really around or needed and our anti heroes such as Yelena are sinking into serious depression feeling like their life has no purpose. Other characters have lost families or are living in the past from a time where they were cherished and with this it gives us a sense of depth with a side that Marvel movies hasn’t touched really.

Shockingly with depression, loneliness, and hopelessness being such focal issues here the movies handles it in a serious matter. When its happening we aren’t given cut aways with bad jokes to break the tension instead given serious moments for our new supergroup to develop their feelings in.

Our cast of misfits though end up working together great with their chemistry. Yelena and Ghost crack one liners to each other while Walker plays the serious man. Bucky continues to play it great going out of his political run here while Red Guardian is a larger than life teddy bear whose happy to be around.

The action here works great without ever going into major set pieces mostly shifting more towards building our team up. Same goes for our villain here which we settle in one of the most satisfying sequences in Marvel in years.

Thunderbolts* sets up the next few years of the MCU and if they continue this streak we finally may be back at it without superhero films feeling like duds.

Score :

4 / 5