Spider-Man
Far From Home 10/10
This
will be full of all of the spoilers. I fucking loved this movie.
Spider-Man Far From Home managed to be better than the first
Homecoming movie and anything I disliked about any characters was
handled and fixed in this one. I mean, they did not have all that
much to fix considering how much I liked it. This takes place after
Endgame where Tony Stark died. If you are finding that out by reading
this then that is totally on you, not me. Nick Fury and Maria Hill
head to this town in Mexico where a storm with a face caused a bunch
of destruction. Next thing you know the shit kicks up again and
suddenly this globe headed dude shows up and tells them they want
none of this and then...Whitney Houston. I shit you not. The theater
lost it laughing. Back at Peter's school the school news made a video
celebrating the Avengers that died by playing “I Will Always Love
You” with some terrible photos.
They
handle everyone vanishing for five years and coming back well. One of
the kids is baffled at how his younger brother is older than him now.
Some of the kids are like “I'm 21 but gotta live like a 16 year
old?!” They call the incident The Blip and it has been eight months
since they all returned. The school is going on a field trip and
Peter wants to let MJ know how he feels and forget about being
Spider-Man for a while and just be a kid. He heads to a fundraiser
with his aunt May and there is some flirting between her and Happy.
Peter is like “The hell is going on here?” Happy tells Peter that
Nick Fury is gonna be calling soon and when he does Peter ignores his
call and leaves a press conference after being asked too many
questions about Stark and who will stop any future attacks.
The
class heads on vacation and May ended up packing Peter's suit into
his luggage which almost gets his ass busted at customs. She also
left him a banana which customs kept. While in Venice this water
monster appears wrecking shit and this guy that they are calling
Mysterio shows up and with Peter's help defeats it. Fury finds Peter
and tranquilizes his friend Ned and tells Peter he needs to come and
help. Peter really doesn't want to until Nick gives him a pair of
glasses Stark left for him. Peter meets Mysterio known as Quentin
Beck. He is from a multiverse and it was destroyed by these creatures
and he is here to help. Peter decides he does not want to help but
Fury ends up changing the classes plans and puts them right where the
monster will be.
Okay.
Know what? Not gonna sit here and recap this entire movie. I will
just talk about all this shit I loved in it. Mysterio was great. I
thought he was pretending to be a hero because I know dude is a
villain and then I knew he was full of shit because he seemed too
perfect and then when he did his reveal. Holy shit. That scene was
incredible. As I was watching I kept thinking Mysterio was over the
top with his kindness and then you realize he is acting. This guy is
a dirtbag pretending to be a hero. The flashbacks they show as to why
he is doing what he is doing fit perfectly into multiple Iron Man
films. He gets these glasses from Peter called E.D.I.T.H that Stark
left for Peter which stands for Even Dead I'm The Hero. Mysterio was
a really good villain and did more than I expected. They made full
use of his illusion abilities.
MJ was
really good in this. I liked that they opened up her character more
in this and she felt more fleshed out and not just something for
Peter to like. His friend Ned is also not as annoying as he was in
the first movie. The scenes in this that are funny are actually
funny. There was a lot of laughter in the theater as well as a lot of
“Oh shit...” moments. The action was done great and even with so
much happening on the screen it never felt cluttered. I could see
what was happening and any time Peter got hurt I felt it. Watching
him get hurt and show it even scenes later was a nice change of pace.
Now
for some super spoilers. One of the extra scenes during the credits
shows J. Jonah Jameson return. This is not the guy that runs the
Daily Bugle. It is now internet based which makes sense and fucking
J.K Simmons returns! The theater cheered when he came up on the
screen and drop the biggest fucking bombshell. Remember how aunt May
found out that Peter was Spider-Man at the end of the first film?
That is not shit to what Jameson reveals at the end of this. Lots of
gasps. There is also another scene where while driving Fury and Hill
turn into goddamn Skrulls. Turns out the real Fury is chilling in
space on a ship. When did he get there? Don't know. But it made the
way he was behaving during the movie make so much more sense and
makes me wanna see this again and look out for certain things. I know
when Peter asked why Captain Marvel could not help and Fury replied
“Do not invoke her name” I thought “That was a weird reaction.”
He was way more rough with Peter and less patient than I thought he
would be with a kid that was gone for five years and still learning
to be a hero.
If you
are on the fence for whatever reason about seeing this I would
strongly suggest you just go see it. This movie has more humor than I
expected. More genuine feeling moments. Great action. The writing and
the ability to tie together films form over ten years ago into this
seamlessly is baffling. Peter is such a likable character that I want
to see succeed. I would love to watch ten movies with this
character. The fact that the first movie has the Vulture as a villain
that turned out to be one of Marvel's best villains to Mysterio makes
me so happy. You would assume they would leap into Doc Ock but they
so far have used these bad guys from Spider-Man's stories that many
aren't even familiar with. There are some weird edits but whatevs. The way this movie ended leaves it open
for some crazy shit to happen later and my body is ready.
Tom
Holland as Peter Parker/Spider-Man
Samuel
L. Jackson as Nick Fury
Zendaya
as Michelle/MJ
Cobie
Smulders as Maria Hill
Jon
Favreau as Harold “Happy” Hogan
J.B.
Smoove as Julius Dell
Jacob
Batalon as Ned Leeds
Marisa
Tomei as May Parker
Jake
Gyllenhaal as Quentin Beck/Mysterio
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