Spider-man No Way Home Review

Spider-man no way home is directed by john watts rounding out his I guess home trilogy if you want to call it something and this film stars Tom Holland once Peter seeks Dr. Strange for aid once more like Spider-Man, but when the spell goes awry, terrible opponents from other realms arrive, forcing Peter to understand what it actually means to be Spider-Man.

"Spider-man no way home" so look I can't talk about this film there's nothing I can say I guess I'll leave now this is going to be a spoiler-free blog I will be doing a spoiler review as well because there's a lot of things I would like to discuss that I will not be discussing right now.

I guess I have to establish what I consider a spoiler if it's in the trailer already I'm going to talk about it there are villains already revealed in the trailer and I'm going to speak about them so if you somehow avoided all the trailers and for some reason are watching this review.

Even though you know I show trailer footage I guess that's your warning I'm just being super careful on this movie is easily the best of the home trilogy for me I haven't been a massive fan of these movies I've enjoyed homecoming and far from home, I rewatched both of them.

Yesterday leading up to this film and I still enjoy them but they're by no means my favorite spider-man movies and this one will be re-watched by me more than a few times for sure I had a great time with it there's some inconsistencies and some issues that I have a little bit that I'll discuss in brief detail but for the most part, I think spider-man fans are going to have a really good time with this movie.

And especially if you loved homecoming and far from home and you're just like totally wrapped up in MJ and Peter and their relationship and all that if that's like your thing like you're gonna, you're just gonna have a great time with this movie. I also had a great time with this movie but because it felt darker than the other two this without a doubt is the closest we've ever gotten to actually having spider-man in the MCU like Tom Holland is really good.

In this movie and he has put through a lot of dark stuff and he has to deal with a lot of things that he's never had to deal with before that force him to become spider-man like he's not spider-teen he's not spider-boy in this movie he gets put through the wringer which is what peter parker has always been to me and it was wonderful to see we know from the last film that JK Simmons is back as Jay Jonah Jameson and he's in the film.

Considerably, I was very happy to see that but Alfred Molina as you know returns as Doc Ock which I never honestly thought I'd see a world where I saw him on the screen again Willem Dafoe is back as green goblin again not something I ever expected to see Jamie Foxx back as electro this is insane like the fact that these people are in this movie is just it's insane.

I struggled to comprehend what I was looking at sometimes because I just never thought I would see that one of my biggest concerns though going in was that they were going to show up and say like a line and then go away like I was afraid norman was gonna show up jump on his glider go godspeed spider-man and then blow up that's not the case at all thank god. 

They are in the movie for a considerable amount of run time and they have a lot to do and they're not just there to be callbacks they all have a plight they all have something that they would like to obtain they all have reasons for wanting it and it makes sense and when it comes to spider-man's interaction with these three characters this is a broad term but it was very good.

I don't mean like the quality I just mean like heartwarming and special and it happened the way it should happen for spider-man like spiderman's choices made sense for the character and I just really liked what they did and Willem Dafoe is really good in this movie like really really good.

I loved hearing his voice and seeing his face contort into the green goblin I don't know man he was good. I loved him so much and it was just wonderful to see him like in the movie, not just in a few shots the real heart and soul of the movie though lies in the relationship between Tom Hall and Spider-man and Zendaya's MJ and they work extremely well together, their chemistry is off the charts.

But also the story is just really sweet and I liked everything they did with those characters, as well as Dr. Strange benedict Cumberbatch, gets some really cool moments in this movie there's an amazing sequence which you have seen in the trailers and I won't talk about like what's going on but there's like a train and clearly, doctor Strange is doing some up magic and that sequence was amazing one of the best things that John Watts has done in this trilogy.

I think my biggest issue with the movie is one of editing and one filmmaking John Watts to me is a good filmmaker but I have never been blown away by his visual take on Spider-man it all feels like it fits into the MCU very well but I never really felt a lot of personality coming through in his directing style.

Most of that was usually due to the characters and the actors inhabiting those characters just really giving a lot to these movies and there are some choices in the film especially editing wise that I didn't understand the first time we really see Willem Dafoe as Green Goblin without the mask on it was handled, very strangely it just cut to his face there was no tilt-up there was no push in it was just a cut to his face and I was like "Ohhh"

It's like that didn't they didn't give him like a really great reveal I mean they give his suit a great reveal but then it's like that's well that's Willem Dafoe bro like he was in platoon man like show some goddamn respect and give him a tilt.

At least in regards to those editing choices, they also cut away from Defoe a lot when he would be just chewing up the scenery and really going for it and it felt like they were almost worried that he was going for it too much. And taking away from the realism of the movie which I just strongly disagree with because they kept cutting away to things that were less interesting than Willem Dafoe as Green Goblin.

Talking they were editing choices like that that bugged me sometimes it did feel like some of these villain characters were just sort of in their own little box and they were being filmed in their own space and they weren't necessarily in the same space as the other characters.

And it was almost like they filmed some of them separately and kind of stitch them together with someone else off-camera reading the lines it just didn't always feel like they were in the same room with everyone it's a strange thing to describe maybe you just have to see the film and understand what I mean.

But that could also be because for these three villain characters I read that they originally didn't necessarily want the public to know that doc ock electro and green goblin were in the movie and maybe they just had to always film them indoors because they were afraid of trying to leak so I don't know but that's really my main gripe with the film is some of the editing choices.

Sometimes it felt like shots just weren't as interesting or as dynamic as they could have been but it's a very small gripe amongst a two-and-a-half-hour movie that I found consistently entertaining Tom Holland is wonderful as spider-man, it's the best.

He's ever been I've liked him since  homecoming and civil war but here he is 

really good and I mean phenomenal in this movie and it has an amazing ending. This film's finale is fantastic.

I think it's extremely satisfactory and I am seeing it again this weekend I can't wait actually that's all I can say right now there is so much other stuff I want to talk about but I can't.