Black Widow Trailer Review: 8 Ups & 3 Downs

2. Some Clunky Dialogue And Everyone Has An Accent... Ish

The Bourne-like sequence that introduces Yelena and reveals that she and Nat are "sisters" is great and seeing them wrestle both with each other and with their contradictory feelings of love and hate (which is what we're supposed to take from it, at least) is going to be a ride. But what is slightly less impressive is the things they're actually saying to each other at the time.

This is not good dialogue. Having Nat respond to her challenge of "I know you're there" with "I know you know I'm here" is massively clunky and their whole interaction around the fighting is cheesy and jarring. It might be that they've rather awkwardly trimmed out the meat of the conversation to have a little exposition in there to set up their relationship, but it is not strong writing at all, in its current form.

Sure, it might seem like nit-picking, but writing dialogue is a big part of film-making, kids.

Also, why does Natasha have an American accent and literally all of the rest of her crew have thick Russian ones? Weren't they all brought up in the same place and in the exact same way? What gives?