Summary
- The Thunderbolts reviews are in and they’re looking very, very good.
- The new MCU movie has a score of 88 on Rotten Tomatoes, the highest-rated MCU movie since No Way Home.
- Fans can decide if they agree when Thunderbolts hits theaters on May 2.
Faith in the MCU feels like it has been dwindling for a while. Marvel has struggled to recapture the magic that culminated with Avengers: Endgame, but review scores for Thunderbolts, which hits theaters this weekend, suggest it may have a long-awaited hit on its hands.
Thunderbolts debuted with a score of 92 percent on Rotten Tomatoes when reviews first started to filter in, putting it among the top ten MCU movies of all time. Even though that score has dropped as more reviews have been published, it hasn’t dropped by much. Thunderbolts currently has a very impressive 88 percent, and while it is no longer in the MCU’s all-time top ten, it’s the second-highest scoring movie during the Multiverse Saga.
The Multiverse Saga includes every MCU movie to have been released since Endgame, and there have been a lot of them.
The only MCU movie to have been released since Endgame with a higher aggregate review score than Thunderbolts is Spider-Man: No Way Home. The latest Spidey movie settled on a 93 percent, earning it top-five status. Since Thunderbolts presumably doesn’t have the shock factor of previous Spider-Men, along with some of their most iconic villains, to wow fans, it scoring so highly is a very promising sign.
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Thunderbolts brings together an unlikely group of heroes/antiheroes, most of whom those who have kept up with the MCU will be familiar with. Black Widow’s sister Yelena, played by Florence Pugh, David Harbour’s Red Guardian, and US Agent are all a part of the group, as is Sebastian Stan who will once again be reprising the role of Winter Soldier.
As for what the reviews are saying, and why Thunderbolts is better than any other MCU movie from the last four years, the consensus appears to be that the film takes risks other Marvel projects have been unwilling, and perhaps too afraid, to take during the MCU’s post-Endgame era. It also sounds like it balances high-intensity action with typical comic book movie humor, notes recent Marvel movies have struggled to hit as well as they used to.
Thunderbolts will kick off an important and telling period for the MCU which will dictate a lot of what comes next. Thunderbolts is first up, releasing in theaters worldwide this weekend. The Fantastic Four’s first footsteps will follow it in July, the MCU’s attempt to make a good F4 movie, something no one has managed to accomplish despite multiple efforts.
Next summer we’ll get Avengers: Doomsday, and then Secret Wars the summer after that in 2027, a one-two punch that Disney and Marvel need to hit as hard as Infinity War and Endgame did. Thunderbolts is a small first step towards that, but it being received so warmly is a very positive sign.
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