What Hatten and Wiseman don’t appear to recognise is that Florence Pugh was compelling as an FAK in Thunderbolts*, not because of her roundhouse kicks but because her character was fundamentally lost and yearning. Scarlett Johansson too, as an FAK in Black Widow, wielded a Taser-tipped baton with class but she defined the movie because her character craved the emotional certainty of family. De Armas’s Eve, conversely, is internally blank and thus profoundly boring. She is simply a vacant expression of an empty film-making aesthetic.