Summary
Following the events that erased Peter Parker’s identity from the world’s memory, the young hero embraces a fresh start while facing new threats that challenge both his resolve and what it means to be Spider-Man.
Director
Destin Daniel Cretton
Writer
Chris McKenna
Erik Sommers
Cast
- Tom Holland as Peter Parker / Spider-Man
- Sadie Sink
- Liza Colón-Zayas
- Zendaya as MJ
- Jacob Batalon as Ned Leeds
- Jon Bernthal as Frank Castle / The Punisher
Rotten Tomatoes: 91%
Metacritic: 66
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It was fun but it felt like I missed a movie or something. Like Frank and Spidey were great together but it just felt weird jumping into their odd couple routine from where we last saw their characters.
It also seems weird to just be like “oh yeah mutants have been on this earth the whole time” like you’ve got “enhanced” humans , magic humans, aliens and literal gods but mutants are gonna be too much for this universe’s people to handle? Or are they just gonna skip over all the anti mutant / sentinel shit? We pretty much covered that with civil war.
Also why did Bruce need an inhibitor - I thought him and hulk were at peace with each other.?
They need to stop trying to have everyone living in the same universe. Just have characters visit from other earths for team ups/battles and then have them go home.
Mutants (x men) would work better on an earth where all this crazy shit and over powered superheroes didn’t happen.
Saw it, I thought it was mediocre and really lacking, it was more like half a movie with lots of unresolved plot lines compared to the last 3 spiderman movies…
Movie Spoilers
Why would they introduce Jean and then not resolve her plot line… At all? She starts the movie on the run, looks for her sister, realizes she’s dead, then goes back to being on the run. It didn’t really feel like we accomplished anything.
Half of the plot is just spiderman getting the confidence to re-introduce himself to his friends. I totally get why they’re doing it and it’s nice that they reconnect in a believable way… But it’s just such a boring plot idea. The whole emotional core of the movie is just “guy connects with characters he used to be friends with last movie”.
Also, the twist of her not being evil is CRAZY to me because she was insanely evil and spent most of the movie messing with spiderman, threatening to kill his girlfriend, possessing multiple people and making them attempt suicide, and some other stuff… only for the movie to end with “actually she’s a really nice person deep down inside?” What??? She was blatantly evil and sadistic, and now she’s just cool and misunderstood?
The Hand is also just hanging out in New York and it’s never explained or resolved. Spiderman’s powers freaking out is never resolved but I guess it’s just implied he gets over it now that he has friends again. Jean Gray baits you into thinking they’re introducing mutants to the MCU but they never do. The director guy was supposedly left alive but we never see if anything happened to him…? Did they just let him go?
So much wasted potential and wasted time. Everything was kinda half assed. The only thing I can really say I liked was the direction, it felt a lot more dynamic and less flat than the other Tom Holland spiderman movies. I loved the swinging scenes.
