Me and the wife just got back from the Thunderbolts* we really liked it.
As far as the return to form comments go, this movie had great practical action, a using VFX to clean the action rather than create it. It directly comments on some of the most recent releases without relaying on them for plot, and really leaves you with the feeling that it will tie into the next two movies, everything that made the MCU feel like a must see serial, instead of writers who have ran out of ideas straining to push out another instalment, force feeding us connections that lead nowhere.
As a standalone movie, the action was great, acting was wonderful, it was funny and emotional, and gave people a bunch of characters they could personally identify with, not too confusing as far as franchise tie ins go, and left the characters sitting in a new and different place at the end of the show. Just not a lot to complain about in this movie, unless you are predisposed to complaining about this genre of movie for it's very existence.
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