Unlock the Ultimate MCU Power Ranking: Which Marvel Movie Truly Packs a Knockout Punch?
Marvel has been in an ice-cold streak, and coming off of Captain America: Brave New World, badly needed to right the ship. Thankfully, Thunderbolts* does just that and then some. In the hands of director Jake Schreier and with a tremendous cast—including Florence Pugh, Wyatt Russell, Sebastian Stan, David Harbour, Lewis Pullman, Hannah John-Kamen, and Julia Louis-Dreyfus, all wonderfully charismatic—this movie brings back everything that people used to love about the MCU in full force. Characters you can invest in? Check. Building toward something happening imminently? Check. On top of all that, though, Schreier as a filmmaker seems to understand the state of the genre and what people are both looking for and annoyed by within it. As a result, you get some things here that you may not have seen before, and you get a movie that really looks and feels like a real movie. Things were shot on-location; real themes and character development are present; the score by Son Lux is fantastic. Thunderbolts* might just be the best MCU movie since Avengers: Endgame.
MCU understanding needed? Part of the nice thing about Thunderbolts* is that despite the fact that this is the 36th film in the franchise, and that almost every character featured here has been seen in some film or television project before, it still for the most part stands alone. If you want to know more about these characters, though, you should primarily check out Black Widow, The Falcon and the Winter Soldier, and Ant-Man and the Wasp.
13. The Avengers (2012)
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