Black Widow Trailer Review: 8 Ups & 3 Downs

5. The Music

It's a simple thing, but Marvel often get a lot of flack for their musical choices in trailers - and indeed in their movies - as they tend to choose somewhat one-dimensional scores for things over making musical statements for the most part. There are obvious exceptions, inevitably, so don't scurry to the comments to say "dId YoU eVeN wAtCh GuArDiAnS?!" but generally speaking, it's a criticism that comes up time and again.

Thankfully, the music here has real personality and suits the agenda to sell the action and what looks like a pretty blistering pace. Added to what we see on-screen - particularly the heavily Bourne-influenced "welcome home" meeting between Natasha and Yelena and it's a great marriage that also hints at the sort of John Wick/Atomic Blonde end of the modern action spectrum too.

And we can all be thankful that they didn't take a pop song, strip it down and give it some "ethereal" e-girl vocals to add mystery and drama like so many current trailers do, because - politely - f*ck that trend.