SPIDERMAN: FAR FROM HOME (Spoiler Free Review)

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Hey, guys!
So the newest entry in the Marvel Cinematic Universe just came out and well, it's a biggie. So after the bombshell that was Avengers Endgame, there was a lot riding on this movie. So let's get on with the review! (What you read down there is purely my opinion, feel free to disagree)

PLOT:
Five years post the Decimation Event, the Avengers are no more and the gap that Tony Stark left can be felt around the world. With his father figure gone, and feeling pressure from all sides to step up to be the new Iron Man, high school kid Peter Parker a.k.a Spiderman decides to on a vacation. And before he knows it, the vacation is highjacked by Nick Fury as the Earth faces an interdimensional threat in the Elementals. Help arrives in the form of Quentin Beck a.k.a Mysterio, but is he to be trusted?

CAST:
Peter Parker/ Spiderman: Tom Holland
Quentin Beck/Mysterio: Jake Gyllenhaal
Nick Fury: Samuel L. Jackson
Maria Hill: Cobie Smulders
MJ: Zendaya
Ned: Jacob Batalon

REVIEW:
Okay, so, I'm gonna let you in on a little secret. I absolutely love the original Sam Raimi Spider-man movies, all three of them. And in my eyes, there's nothing wrong with them and the only flaw in them is that there's only three of them. So I really dislike the Amazing Spiderman movies and I'm not a huge fan of the MCU version of Spiderman either. I felt that Homecoming was a pretty average movie too (though I have to admit, the Vulture plot twist is mind-blowing). So, obviously, I didn't walk into Far From Home with high hopes. But I have to say... It caught me off guard.

When I first saw the trailer for this movie, I thought to myself well, this is another one of Marvel's happy go lucky movies where everyone's smiling and happy and there's jokes galore and that's it. But, boy was I wrong. Instead what I got was a


brilliantly well-crafted, superbly paced, coming of age story, about a boy with an identity crisis, struggling to maintain a balance between his school life and the responsibilities that his powers give him, especially now that Tony Stark is no more.

All in all, it portrays a side of superheroes relatively unexplored in action films. However, a lot of the charm of the film comes from the well known "Marvel formula" of laughs and jokes. There is a little character inconsistency as Peter becomes a reluctant hero, which is a sharp contrast from the eager-to-prove-himself-kid we got in previous MCU films.

All things considered, this movie gets a 4/5 from me.

P.S. You want to stick around for the post-credits of this one.


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