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movie review - Spider-Man: No Way Home

the journal of Michael Werneburg

twenty-eight years and a million words

Kokubunji, 2024.04.25

This is yet another Marvel super-hero movie featuring Spider-Man. This time around, the titular character finds himself beset by villains who are new to him but all seem to presume they know him. The young man works out that they're falling into our timeline because of a stunt he pulled with a magic device (in a previous movie) and he's quickly in over his head.

Of course, it's not long before the other two actors who have played Spider-Man over the past twenty years put in an appearance, and in a sequence that is supposed to be thrilling to fans of the bottomless well of Marvel movies, we get a scene so full of action that it's no longer a coherent movie. They also liberally change some of the characters in ways that don't work, just to gin up some insincere tension.

Not recommended. I think I'm going to swear off these super-hero things, I really don't see the point any more.

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