- Firstly, I tend the view the MCU as the most expensive, elaborate, TV series. With this in mind, whenever a TV series does an episode about a character that is now dead, it's usually to either (a) offer some detailed, game changing background on the character or (b) offer previously unknown info about the character that changes the way we view their actions in a particular scenario. With this in mind I had expectations that we were going to find something deep about the character, potentially she was dying for example frm something that happened in this film which was why she willingly sacrificed herself rather than letting Clint die.
- Secondly, as we knew she survived everything that happened, because of my point above there were no physical stakes in the movie. Firstly we have the car chase scene where they're in a car that explodes, then another that gets flung in to the subway, and these regular humans walk away from it. Then in the final she essentially, barring some slowed down falling with the parachute, free-falls tens of thousands of feet! Part of me now starts to think, "Well how come the fall in Endgame killed her?"
- Third, the family didn't die. So there's no existential or physical risk to Black Widow, so I expected her family to die, a bit like the Rogue One characters. But no, they all survive too! But later in IW & Endgame she still acts as though the Avengers are her only family. I really didn't get it.
- Fourth, as much as I enjoy Ray Winstone chewing up the scenery, the organisation had no weight for me. They haven't been reference other than in passing, and looks like they're all destroyed by the end of the film. Again, just seemed like a very 'light' villain.
Ultimately, I walked out wondering how the MCU was developed by that film existing and, apart from what looks to the the TV show for Hawkeye, this had no real purpose to exist.