Robert Downey Jr delivers verdict on Marvelâs Thunderbolts*
The â??Iron Manâ?? star is preparing to play the villain in next yearâ??s â??Avengers: Doomsdayâ??
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Robert Downey Jr has offered his thoughts on Marvelâs latest superhero team-up Thunderbolts*.
The 60-year-old Iron Man star is currently preparing to play the villain, Doctor Doom, in next yearâs Avengers: Doomsday.
Downey shared a picture on Instagram of himself and some of his fellow cast members attending a Thunderbolts* screening. Included in the group were a host of returning Marvel stars including Thorâs Chris Hemsworth, Ant-Manâs Paul Rudd, Captain Americaâs Anthony Mackie, Shang-Chiâs Simu Liu and Winston Duke, who plays MâBaku in Black Panther.
Also present were Marvel Cinematic Universe newcomers Vanessa Kirby and Ebon-Moss Bachrach, who star in the upcoming Fantastic Four, and Channing Tatum, who played the X-Men character Gambit in last yearâs Deadpool & Wolverine.
Downey captioned the image: âJust wow!!! Dinner and a show with the Old Avengers. So cool, fresh, and deep. Big congrats to the New Avengers (and Bob). #Thunderbolts.â
Starring Florence Pugh, Sebastian Stan, David Harbour, Wyatt Russell, Lewis Pullman, Hannah John-Kamen, and Julia Louis-Dreyfus, the film follows an unconventional group of antiheroes who embark on a dangerous mission.
Robert Downey Jr at the premiere of HBO's 'The Sympathizer' in April 2024 (Chris Delmas/AFP via Getty Images)In a four-star review of Thunderbolts*, The Independent film critic Clarisse Loughrey called it âthe best Marvel movie in years.â
âItâs hard not to be cynical about Marvelâs Thunderbolts*,â wrote Loughrey. âThe franchise, having muscled countless independent films out of cinema screens to make more room for its behemoths, now has the audacity to sell their latest instalment as a big-budgeted film with the âfeelâ of a low-budgeted one, releasing a trailer boasting about how many of its cast and crew have worked on projects released by the average cinephileâs favourite production company, A24. Even its official synopsis declares, with a wink and a nudge, that itâs come courtesy of âa crew of indie veterans who sold out.
âThen again, if you do hire the team behind Netflixâs razor-sharp comedy series Beef (director Jake Schreier, its creator Lee Sung Jin, and one of its writers, The Bearâs co-showrunner Joanna Calo), and actually allow them the space and tools to work â well, logically, you should end up with something fairly decent.
âAnd, so, Thunderbolts* is good. Not âsingle-handedly save the Marvel cinematic universeâ good, but enough to make those self-declared victims of âsuperhero fatigueâ reconsider that it might not be the genre itself thatâs tapped out, but merely the focus on telling stories versus marketing future sequels and the sickly shimmer of nostalgia.â
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