Moon Knight Episode 4 Review: Expect the Unexpected Which Is Logically Better To Discover For Yourself
Cast: Oscar Isaac, Ethan Hawke and May Calamawy
Directors: Justin Benson, Mohamed Diab, Aaron Moorhead
Streaming Platform: Disney+
Filmyhype.com Ratings: 4/5 (four star) [yasr_overall_rating size=”large”]
It’s clear that the Marvel Cinematic Universe doesn’t want to give us a break in 2022. If just yesterday we received the trailer for Thor: Love and Thunder, now we must prepare for Moon Knight episode 4, which arrives tomorrow, Wednesday, on Disney Plus And you better not miss it! We already commented in the first review of Moon Knight that, with this series, you must be prepared for anything, a bit in the style of what happened with Scarlet Witch and Vision. Therefore, it is difficult to approach the review of this episode 4 without getting into swampy ground.
Moon Knight is convincing us, although it has gone a little from more to less. The previous episode was surely the most irregular of the 3, although it left good feelings thanks to that long-awaited arrival in Egypt, the conversation between the different gods and a couple of very explicit fights. One more week, Disney Plus has already released the fourth chapter of the series and it has been more impressive than ever.
Moon Knight Episode 4 Review: The Story
In any case, the episode picks up following the events of episode 3. With Marc/Steven and Layla investigating the vestiges of the gods in Egypt, these new 45 minutes continue with that “Indiana Jones style” focused more on adventures than on the usual superhero action. Once again, it is important to highlight how the chemistry works between the characters of Oscar Isaac and his companion in adventures played by May Calamawy, but the antagonism with Ethan Hawke’s Arthur becomes more relevant than ever.
And this is where, once again, Marvel Studios manages to get the most out of the series format that Moon Knight uses, since as a movie it would not have been the same. Why? For the management of script twists and cliffhangers that, again, we must keep quiet about for your own good. But come on, we’re not going to get tired of vindicating that notion that, although an episode initially connects with the previous one, it’s very interesting to see how Marvel series dare to address different genres and approaches from one week to the next, in such a way that we cannot accommodate, much less get bored as spectators.
After a couple of episodes of psychological drama, the previous one had already dipped a bit into adventure cinema. But it is that this fourth chapter of “Moon Knight” literally seems like a movie of “The Search” or “The Mummy”. The protagonists and the bad guys in a race against the clock to find a precious treasure in the ruins of an ancient civilization like the Egyptian. It’s such an obvious approximation that the episode is called “The Tomb”. I don’t know about you, but to me that a series like these changes register for a while and does something like that seems wonderful to me. We still settle for little, but we fan of this type of cinema have the time of our lives with adventures like this. The tension is well built and although it is something we have seen a thousand times it is a cool and applauding tribute. Little to blame here. But then on top of that, “Moon Knight” goes and destroys the puzzle we had assembled into a thousand pieces.
Moon Knight Episode 4 Review: And Analysis
Given that a good part of the action in this episode takes place inside the Egyptian ruins, perhaps we can get picky and criticize that, sometimes, the scenarios look like something “made of papier-mâché”, an evil that is usually very common. when approaching these types of settings. But the truth is that, throughout the episode, we do not pay much attention to it, because certain revelations and reflections do not stop happening around that Egyptian mythology that has so much potential. for the future of the MCU.
As we said, we can say little more about this Moon Knight Episode 4 without ruining the experience, but of course we are clear that it is one of the chapters that we have liked the most in recent weeks (not of this series, but in general) because They know how to play with the viewer. That we ourselves draw our conclusions or, at least, theories, is part of the grace of this trip, from a geek point of view, but also to help us empathize with the drama that the characters are going through in Oscar Isaac’s head.
The most interesting thing is that, according to those responsible for the Moon Knight series, the best is yet to come with episode 5 next week (we remind you that there are 6 episodes for this first season), so we have no idea what to expect next… And we love that. Of course, the most interesting conclusion that we can draw for now is that little by little, Marvel Studios is learning to use superheroes intelligently as an “excuse” for stories that can appeal to very different viewers, even if they are not familiar at all with the MCU.
They had been warning us for a long time The fourth episode of “Moon Knight” brought a totally unexpected script twist. At least as the series was being built. It has finally arrived and, indeed, we did not see it coming. It turns out that after playing Indiana Jones and the superhero, Marc Spector is caught by Arthur Harrow and fatally wounded with two gunshots. But he suddenly wakes up, and he is not in the villain’s secret lair, nor in a death trap, nor in the middle of the desert. Steven is in a mental hospital. And he is one of the patients. “Moon Knight” drives us crazy again just like he did in the first episode: everything is chaotic, we don’t know what the hell is going on and we are as helpless as Steven Grant was on his night walks. What we see makes us think of two things. Perhaps, in reality, Marc is really sick and everything has been a hallucination. They even put toys and other objects that we easily recognize to build that story. But he suddenly meets Steven physically (and with another sarcophagus that may hide that third secret personality). Is Steven/Marc in purgatory inside his own head? And that final appearance ends up blowing our brains out.
Regardless of where the story is headed, Marvel Studios is making a big deal out of carrying this character into its future. We have Dane Whitman in The Eternals, Blade already tipping in a certain production, now Marc Spector reaching his potential as one of the heroes of the House of Ideas, it’s impossible not to see that they want to go somewhere with that core and that’s for sure. it will be important for the future of the whole plot that was built.
As much as Moon Knight does not have many connections to the MCU or make direct references to any event, his participation will not be there in isolation. I suspect the grand plan now doesn’t involve the Multiverse all that much, but the dark forces that are surging on the planet. We’ve had Loki, Ultron, Thanos and other threats, but the gods are starting to interfere and that doesn’t seem to me to go anywhere positive. The Eternals themselves, Asgard on Earth, the emergence of the Greek gods in the trailer for Thor: Love and Thunder…for me there’s a connection.
And this is where I believe our hero will be. The Ennead’s reunion in the last episode and her decisions should serve as a yardstick for what we’re about to see in the future of this great line. For those who swore they wouldn’t intrude, they are moving around a lot, and this could be a slight nod that things call for greater powers helping to establish balance again. Not that our new Captain America or the Mighty Thor can’t solve this, but you can smell big trouble coming.
Still, it’s uncertain where the plot will take us. We may arrive next week, with an unreleased chapter showing that everything I said here was pure bullshit. A warning, it’s not usually and I even advance that before the events of Infinity War and Endgame I was already singing the ball of the final result in the chat with my friends based on what I saw in the comics. Marvel Studios loves to change the content there, but the basis remains the same. Any story about alternate realities we know we can change the course of things, but beings that live in parallel almost always act in very similar ways.
My biggest question is what kind of saga they are telling in this Phase 4. We had Wandavision, Loki, Spider-Man: No Return Home and Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness all dealing with the opening up of parallel realities. Shang-Chi plays around with this a bit, but you can tell he’ll be joining the Avengers in the near future. The Eternals gives a glimpse into the cosmic threats, something Thor: Love and Thunder and the upcoming Guardians of the Galaxy should add to. Hawkeye and the Falcon and the Winter Soldier already focus on Earth’s politics and villains. What is the involvement of gods and mythology in this? Well, we’ll find out soon…
Moon Knight Episode 4 Review: The Last Words
A new surprise from the MCU, which is logically better to discover for yourself, but which demonstrates the versatility of the Marvel narrative. If there is a way to summarize in a few words what we have gotten with this episode of Moon Knight I would say that it is defined as the best plot-twist of a Marvel series so far. I didn’t understand a damn thing about the ending. Everything points to Khonshu resurrecting Marc once again. If that theory of mental confinement is true. But what if what is happening in “Moon Knight” is a ploy by Arthur to definitively kill the Egyptian God? The doubt is there, and hopefully it will come next week so they can tell us more.
