Leave no respite to their fanbase, Marvel Studiosvia Disney+, made available the last episode of Moon Knight 04 May, the day of the release of Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness. What to binge-watch the series and then run into its nearest dark room to see Kevin Feige's last blockbuster... Uh, sorry about Sam Raimi!
Feige, therefore, always with the aim of proposing new heads within his stable, decides to attack Moon Knight, a character created in 1975 by screenwriter Doug Moench and cartoonist Don Perlin strongly inspired by Batman for his urban black knight side. And who says adaptation necessarily says betrayal, Feige and his scriptwriters will mold him as they please to make him enter the visual universe of the MCU.
Farewell the Steven Grant millionaire, placed at Steven Grant's seller in a souvenir shop at the museum in London. Introverted, a little left, Grant (Oscar Isaac, two fingers away from Jim Carrey of Mad Irene) is the victim of memory loss and nightmares of another life much more agitated than its wretched existence.
In the course of the first two episodes, he will discover that he owns several personalities: Steven Grant, therefore, and Marc Spector, a mercenary serving as d'avatar to an Egyptian divinity: Khonshu (magnifically doubled by F. Murray Abraham). This unlikely trio, aided by Spector's wife, Layla (a May Calamawy who steals the star at each of her appearances), will therefore willingly join forces to defeat the plans of Arthur Harrow (Ethan Hawke, perfect as usual), a fanatical leader of sect who wants to awaken the goddess Ammit in order to take life away from the sinners of our world (whether you have sinned in the past or in the future).
Night at the Museum
Let's say it clearly, the first 2 episodes leave a mixed feeling; The borderline ambiance puts us on the bottom side and the overplay of Oscar Isaac we are disrouting. Perhaps this is meant to be identified with this poor person who can no longer identify the real of what is not.
In any case, history leaves in every sense, all in a visual universe worthy of Night at the Museum, race-continuation in the corridors included. Between two jokes inherent in the MCU so as not to make the atmosphere too anxious (and to scare away a wider audience), Moon Knight finally appears very little, the time to stick a few tacks and take an iconic pose unfortunately reduced to the assembly, the realization abusing cuts and cameras on the shoulder making the whole indigestible.
Benjamin Gates and the Mystery of the Pharaohs
Once the main intrigue and the multiple personality of our hero (more or less) revealed, we find ourselves in Egypt with two episodes where the opposing camps go in search of Ammit. Still, nothing crazy on the horizon, Moon Knight being far too absent to our liking if this is only a few scenes that come to titillate the cinema horror with zombie priests trying to take our fine team into the depths of an unexplored place until then.
However, history is building somewhat, a (very soon) allusion to Madripoor of Falcon and the Winter Soldier and Shang-Chi and the Legend of the Ten Rings reminding us of the inevitable connection to the rest of the production, the fleeting presence of the late Gaspart Ulliel whom we would have liked to see prolonged in nemesis of the knight of the moon and of course, the final of episode 4 which redistributes the maps and finally gives grain to the spectator to grind until then.
Flight over Taouret nest
It is from episode 5 that the series will really take off. From the story of adventures lambda, Moon Knight will flirt with the qualities of a WandaVision or Loki. A separate episode in the series, a pause in the plot that will allow the past of the character(s) of Oscar Isaac to be naked.
Without spoiling, it will allow to hang up the cars (even if you had a lot of doubts) in order to leave the field open to a last episode in climax mode... With its lot of action scenes, including a very nice duel of Egyptian gods to the Godzilla vs Kong.
We will not reveal anything of the inevitable post-generic scene but it confirms the clues left here and there in these six episodes.
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Apart from the universe of the MCU, this character who would have more place in that of a Daredevil or Blade unfortunately does not compete with the qualities of these.
Nothing new for comic-earned readers (we'll never repeat it enough, read them, that's great!), but a decent front door for the general public.
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