The MCU Gets an Unexpected Lifeline in 'Thunderbolts*'

The MCU Gets an Unexpected Lifeline in 'Thunderbolts*'


Truly a motley crew of rejects and losers, this begrudging team showed up at both the right time for the MCU and the right time in the MCU storyline. When we add in the strange x-factor of sort-of-amnesiac Bob Reynolds, a recovering meth addict with a history of mental illness who somehow falls into their laps (and is portrayed wonderfully by Lewis Pullman, the film achieves a bizarrely effective chemistry that we haven’t seen the likes of in years. We’ve got alternate dimensions and mutants and the Fantastic Four all getting whisked into this already unstable and unpredictable recipe, and sometimes it feels like the bigger it gets, the more it stumbles.

Author: TK Burton


Published at: 2025-05-04 20:10:27

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