Late to the party as ever!
I agree with several of the opinions above: Florence Pugh really stole the show! I loved how this movie created several characters that we can care for, and avoided lazy angst-ridden scenes where Mom, Dad or Baby Sister die so the main character can gnash their teeth. The family dynamic was pretty cool and optimistic! Weisz was pretty convincing too, David Harbour is always a riot, and Johansson just
is Natasha, now, the way Evans has become Captain America or Hemsworth is Thor.
Taskmaster didn't do much, true, but she wasn't the main villain anyway... just another henchman (henchwoman), like Crossbones in the Captain America films.
One thing I loved is how Natasha
was a darn good spy in this film. The way she got Drakoff to reveal his plan evoked the way she had bamboozled Loki in
The Avengers, and it was great to see her operating at full strength instead of moping about her family, the way other writers might have decided to go for.
There were fewer jokes than in a typical Marvel movie, but that's not necessarily a bad thing; besides, I liked the few that were there (like the Crimson Dynamo joke).
Overall, this felt like a story that genuinely deserved to be told, and not like a franchise-exploiting film done by numbers.