Hawkeye

Eine mit Leichtigkeit gedrehte Weihnachtsgeschichte mit Superhelden, bei der die Erde oder das Universum nicht bedroht sind. Es geht „nur“ um eine kriminelle Verschwörung und darum, dass eine Person die Feiertage zu Hause verbringen kann. In Marvel's The Avengers von Joss Whedon war für mich Hawkeye am wenigsten interessant. Das tat mir leid, weil Jeremy Renner ein sympathischer Kerl ist. Die Russo-Brüder haben ihm jedoch in den folgenden Filmen viele Möglichkeiten gegeben, die er zu meiner Freude genutzt hat. Diese Serie hat ihn endgültig zu einer großartigen Figur gemacht. Hailee Steinfield ist für seine Geschichte genauso wichtig wie er. Das stört mich aber überhaupt nicht, weil sie einfach ein Volltreffer ist. (07.01.2024)

Happy Holidays! A lightweight, enjoyable snack, nicely following up on and complementing events at Marvel. Renner is excellent and passes the baton on to a thrilled Hailey Steinfeld. Bishop has the balls to be in the Avengers, but it remains to be seen who else Feige will cast in the movies. It’s good to see Yelena and Wilson here and their appearances are meant to be the high points of the series. But it turns out that the real high point is the chase through the streets of New York with the souped-up darts. The series is worth watching for this alone. We're all gonna die. (22.12.2021)

Christmas popcorn from Marvel with two diametrically opposed halves. While the first 2 or 3 episodes are almost pure candy for small, young and simple viewers, where the cute little dog has to have only one eye and the black policewoman has to be a lesbian and say it out loud with nonchalant elegance in order to make everything as politically friendly and correct as possible, from the middle onwards the pace picks up and the story builds up solidly. Hawkeye ultimately deepens the Marvel universe pretty cleverly, revealing cards that we haven't quite got to see in the big movies or the series spin-offs. And with the arrival of Florence Pugh, everything jumps up another level. Four stars, but just barely. (22.01.2022)

The films from the Marvel stable are quite watchable if you turn a blind eye, but the expansion of its universe into series is one screw-up after another, with no exceptions. And I've never seen Jeremy Renner so bored, really. He must have breathed a deep sigh of relief when the shooting ended. (31.03.2022)

Pathetically mediocre Marvel projects on Disney+ just keep on coming. Hawkeye had the potential to be an awesome show - excellent pair of leads, MCU setting, and an atmosphere that automatically makes you think of Die Hard. You'd think nothing could go wrong here, but sadly that's not the case. The series looks awfully cheap, the fights and action scenes in general are downright terrifying, and the bad guys and most of the supporting characters are totally bland. Even the pace of the narrative itself is unnecessarily fast. By the time the story gets going, it's actually all coming to an end. I really wanted to enjoy the series, but it was difficult. Not to criticize too much, it wasn't a disaster like The Falcon and the Winter Soldier, but I'd be lying if I said that I wasn't bored most of the time with all six episodes. Finally, let me just say that I've hated Florence Pugh's "Russian" accent since the first Black Widow trailer, and I literally had to suffer through it in the film. Here, it's to be continued. Enough is enough, please, I can't take it anymore. (22.12.2021)