Review of Spider-Man: No Way Home (2021) by Nintenderek — 27 Dec 2021

Spider-Man No Way home is not just the best Spider-Man movie by far, it is perhaps the best cinematic experience that I've ever had the pleasure of viewing. It is a movie made by fans, for the fans and is clearly a project made with a lot of passion. It has one of the best stories of any super hero movie and is absolutely full of references not just to the previous Spider-Man movies, but all forms of Spider-Man media to a point where I imagine it would be nearly impossible to catch it all. The acting is on point. The directing is on point. The writing is on point and without spoiling it at all, the ending is a perfect set-up for future Spider-Man movies. Even if you've been disappointed by Spidey's other outings in the MCU, I think this will be the MCU Spider-Man movie for you as it does fix most of the issues people have had with the other MCU Spider-man movies. There's also a lot of really good action scenes with some of the best fight scenes of any modern media. This movie is really the first chance Tom Holland hays really gotten to show his abilities in hand to hand combat and it's fun to watch. The music is also entirely perfect. Someone really put some work into the sound track. Speaking of things someone has put work into, someone REALLY did their research for this movie. Every character feels well researched and well developed, including all the characters from the original trilogy of Spider-Man movies and the Amazing Duo. I imagine that as this movie was written, someone had to rewatch those movies quite a few times as this movie gets everything from them right. Even some common Spider-Man related memes are referenced several times through out the movie.

However, I did say this movie was nearly perfect, not absolutely perfect so clearly there are a few minor flaws and I really only have a few issues with it. The lighting in the final fight scene certainly could be a bit better and it's weird to see only 5 villians when they could have easily included a 6th to make it a sinister six movie. I feel like Dane DeHaan's Green Goblin from Amazing Spider-Man 2 would have been the perfect inclusion, particularly to see him interacting with William Dafoe's version of the character. I also never noticed the original Spider-Man theme song in this movie at all, which was a bit of an odd choice given the amount of fanfare this movie has. All of these are very minimal issues though and some may come down more to my personal tastes than the quality of the movie.

All in all, this movie might be the closest we'll ever see to a perfect movie. For any fan of Spider-Man, this movie is a must watch, but I don't need to tell you that. If you are a fan of Spider-Man, you've probably already seen it.