It's interesting and (very) weird and funny and sad and it's about something, depression mainly. David Harbour, Julia Louis-Dreyfus, and Wyatt Russell are pretty good, but the standout is Florence Pugh, who is excellent and very nearly steals the film and turns it into Black Widow II Plus Some Supporting Guys I Guess.
It's a shame it didn't do better in cinemas, but I can sort of see why it didn't. It's almost like an anti-Marvel movie, a sometimes low-key, almost "small", film about a bunch of really quite rubbish "heroes" who accidentally become a team; in that way it's perhaps more accurate to call them the Defenders.
(Ha ha. Comics joke.)
Yes, the comic Thunderbolts have a better, more clever, origin, but I can see why we didn't, perhaps couldn't*, get that in the MCU.
I liked it! A lot!
(Except for Sentry, he's still terrible.)
*The perfect time to do MCU-Thunderbolts-with-the-comics-origin would have been between Infinity War and Endgame, but that horse has sailed.
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