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The Wasp (2024)

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If you were impressed by the trailer as much as I was, then you'll also be able to guess that maybe the whole thing is really just the few minutes afforded to us already.

You will often hear that the trailer can tell the whole story and despite how well written and intriguingly edited those precious few moments were, there is still more to this than you might expect.


Two old schoolfriends who have since gone separate ways, both socially and financially since academia, get together in a fancy hotel for coffee to hatch a grave and dastardly plot.

Seems like the rich one (Naomie Harris) has realised her husband is not what any doting wife would wish for. As such, the not so financially affluent of the two (Natalie Dormer) decides to accept the money being offered to knock off the lying, cheating, abusive piece of shit.


The time planning the whole sordid, but allegedly ultimately morally justified act of barely contained mighty fateful justice is carefully considered and delivered to us through some excellent and often darkly comic exposition, performed brilliantly by both Harris and Dormer, who seem to relish the quite formidable and luscious script offered to them


But the seemingly obvious and simple plan has more than a trick or two up its sleeve and at about an hour we begin to see just why the trailer was apparently so happy flashing its bloomers at us, for everything it purposely neglected to mention. The twists come thick and fast and nothing is as it seems, which becomes more obvious as time goes on.


It's a well delivered, well performed little nugget that weighs in at just an hour and a half, but these characters are roundly created and believably focused, creatively full of engagement. I had a good time with this, but it may go under the radar for many, which is a crying shame.



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