I thought it was pretty good. It doesn't live up to its subtitle, save for that brief flash of other multiverses, but what we do get is fascinating and it appears that director Sam Raimi was given a looser. He was trying to have some fun and push the limits of what the MCU has been allowed to do with violence so far. Some of this stuff would have freaked me out if I were a young kid.
If you haven't seen the movie, it's best to not go any further.
The whole Illuminati side detour is the biggest complaint I have against the movie. It is fun to see Haley Atwell, Lashana Lynch, and Anson Mount reprise their roles as Black Bolt, Maria Rambeau, andPeggy Carter. It felt like self congratulation when Professor X and John Krasinski showed up. The only thing that made it a complete dud and kill the film for me was that Wanda murders them all. Black Bolt and Charles have some pretty gruesome ends that may be a bit much for the younger audiences who have only known mostly cleaner kills.
Wanda was supposed to come a year before WandaVision and Spider-Man: No Way Home, but the schedule shuffling affected it. The argument that she is going through the same path as she did in her own show is valid. In our review, we said that Elizabeth Olsen is giving a really good villain performance in the upper tier of these films. It feels as if the movie just wasn't interested in fully exploring everything they had set up for her, which is a shame since WandaVision has shown what she's capable of with a script that's interested in her interiority beyond being.
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