movie review - Spider-Man: Far from Home
the journal of Michael Werneburg
twenty-seven years and one million words
This is a strange version of Spider Man that has no origin story but is basically a kid in the by-now Iron Man's wake. They've dragged Spider-Man through a worm-hole to depict a minor, local hero in a world filled to the brim with overly-powered heroes ranging up to literal gods.
Even his character is changed. We see no growth here because so much time is spent on stuff that's irrelevant to the character. He's basically caught up in a minor Iron Man story here, it's really maddening. Also, if they're going to embed Spider-Man in the world of the Marvel Universe they seem to have forgotten that by this point they'd established that half the world's population had been missing for five years and then returned. It's odd that this in no way impacted Peter/Spider-Man, his Aunt May, or seemingly anybody in his life. At this point the movies are such a mess it makes the original comic books, where stuff was rewritten without explanation all the time, look like a template instead of a caution.
I don't care of this "cinematic universe" stuff and agree with the critics that say it's not cinema. It's very slick, looks very expensive, and is simply not Spider-Man. The Nine Year Old enjoyed it quite a bit, though, so I'm expecting we'll watch the final installment in the sequence.
Not recommended.