Review of Spider-Man: Homecoming (2017) by Bfoore90 — 06 Jul 2017

A fun time, no doubt about it. To start out, I really enjoyed Michael Keaton's adaption of The Vulture, he plays the character so well and so brilliantly as he goes from psychotic madman to sympathetic father.

Tom Holland was solid if not okay, thought I still prefer Andrew Garfield's adaption to his I found his performance as Peter/Spider-Man to be commendable. Nothing against Holland but with Holland's adaption we return to the wide eyed Tobey Maguire-ish days of Spider-Man as opposed to Garfield's version which can best be described as whip-smart and likably cheeky, with an undercurrent of teenage angst as well as a sense of arrogance which gave those movies a unique, restless, reckless energy and a welcome sense of danger.

Holland's interpretation also feels too relying upon Tony Stark and almost feels like an Iron-Spider-Man than actual Spider-Man. Its the same sense that people take with Christain Bale and his interpretation of Batman.

Bale's batman didn't feel as "Batman" enough to some fans, to which I agree but I got that same feeling with Holland here. Though like Bale, Holland did a fine job in the role and its not really a knock on him as much as it is a knock on the script.

That being said, I did enjoy it's lighthearted tone to go along with its likable cast with Keaton, Downey Jr, Marissa Tomei and Zendaya being the standouts here. The movie is a good time nontheless, some of my main gripes with this movie is that I felt the movie was trying too hard to be something different when it didn't need to do that, it made no mention of Uncle Ben which to some can be good but Uncle Ben is an core part of what makes Peter who he is.

They didn't need to show him getting shot but him going completely unacknowledged throughout the movie bothered me. With that being said, the direction is solid but the script fails it at times but the way that it undercuts some of those small, heartfelt moments for a cheap laugh just came across to me as needless.