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Spider-man: Far From Home
8.5/10
After the absolute love that has come from Tom Holland being Spider-man, the homecoming being a complete success and even the relationship he had with Tony Stark in the Avengers movies, it's easy to say that people were getting excited for Far From Home. The thing is, Holland was not the only reason for this buzz going around. It is a big moment to see where we go after Endgame but more so, we are finally getting Jake Gyllenhaal in a Marvel movie. He going to be Mysterio, who after playing the Playstation games, I know he is a villain. Imagine my confusion when the movie started and he was put up to be a team member. Let's get down to it and work our way back home.
The story follows Peter as he heads off on a school trip around Europe with his school and I'm instantly immersed as I was searching for the locations that I have also travelled to. Peter just wants to get away from his super-hero persona and the fact that he is expected to carry on as normal after the death of Tony. This isn't going to last long though. Elsewhere, we bump into Fury and Maria Hill who have their first cross over with the main bad guys so far, the Elementals. This quickly leads to it being defeated by Mysterio and the story switches to Peter's side. Halfway through the trip, Peter is set upon by Nick Fury after 'Ghosting' his calls and avoiding his duties. The next elemental shows up in Venice and Peter needs to take action, his first encounter with one and with Mysterio, this then leads to their late-night meeting thanks to Fury.
Next, they are onto Prague and another Elemental, the strongest one and they prevail, saving a couple of friends in the process but two major things happen. Tony has given Peter access to a set of glasses to control EDITH, which after a few mishaps, he's gets a little used to. Now Peter doesn't really want to fill in for Tony and after Mysterio has come from another dimension to save our Earth, surely he's the ideal guy for the job. Peter thinks so but it turns out the guy is a bit of a prick. He used to work for Tony and got sacked. Quite an invented as we later find out and goes by the name of Quentin Beck. He takes EDITH and uses it for all sorts of devilish things. The other major part of Prague is regarding MJ. She works out who Peter really is and is pretty cool with the situation. Worried, but cool enough. So as the movie progresses, we get out the first major battle between Spider-man and Mysterio, as he finally shows his true potential as he creates images that completely disorientate Spidey but blow me away. Spidey gets smashed, ends up ask Happy for help and we get a cheeky yet little cheesy rendition of him creating a new suit to the music of AC/DC, just like his mentor did. The final fight takes place in London and after a pretty decent showdown, Spider-man gets EDITH back and saves the day, gets the girl and finally can go back to being a Neighbourhood Spider.
The storyline was a really good one, plenty of twists in there and a young guy who was torn and not really in a great place after the loss of his father figure but by the end and even throughout the movie, began to grow up and even fell in love.
We have come to know most of the characters in this movie, whether they bring the seriousness, frustration or comedy to the franchise, there is no change there. Other than the growth of Peter, which I have already touched upon, how can you not love the role that Jake Gyllenhaal played? His whole plot, the lightening speed of his transition from good to evil and then onwards from there was truly brilliant. Easily the stand out performance in this movie. The standout moment from me was when he thrust Spiderman into an altered reality. We saw a giant Mysterio, cartoon-like imagery, zombie Iron-man and much, much more. It has been one of my favourite characters introduced into a stand-alone Marvel movie in a little while. With that scene taking Spidey by complete surprise, it also did the same for me, it was an interesting use of special effects and voice over that resonated and stayed with me for a while afterward. Special effects were used a lot in this movie, down to the amount of Elemental usage but I far from think there was too much on show, it worked really well and it's just the way movies are these days.
If we had to touch on some bad points, we would be nitpicking but one for me had to be that it didn't totally feel like a Spider-man movie we have come to know. This may be a good thing to switch it up but with the lack of swinging from skyscrapers, not being in New York and although it was a school trip, the lack of school time or working a real-life job, did feel somewhat strange to me. Saying that, you can still tell that I really enjoyed this latest MCU installment, just before we hit the most trialling phase coming up. There isn't a massive amount on the list that is getting me excited. Before we go anywhere, we have to talk about those after credit scenes. J Jonah Jameson is back on the hunt for Spider-man and what's that he has? A video from a Mysterio that we thought was dead and it reveals that Spider-man is Peter Parker!? Holy shit, where do we go from here?? No-where is Disney and Sony don't stop measuring their dicks, now sort that deal out and make it stick! Otherwise, try creating Night Monkey.
The story follows Peter as he heads off on a school trip around Europe with his school and I'm instantly immersed as I was searching for the locations that I have also travelled to. Peter just wants to get away from his super-hero persona and the fact that he is expected to carry on as normal after the death of Tony. This isn't going to last long though. Elsewhere, we bump into Fury and Maria Hill who have their first cross over with the main bad guys so far, the Elementals. This quickly leads to it being defeated by Mysterio and the story switches to Peter's side. Halfway through the trip, Peter is set upon by Nick Fury after 'Ghosting' his calls and avoiding his duties. The next elemental shows up in Venice and Peter needs to take action, his first encounter with one and with Mysterio, this then leads to their late-night meeting thanks to Fury.
Next, they are onto Prague and another Elemental, the strongest one and they prevail, saving a couple of friends in the process but two major things happen. Tony has given Peter access to a set of glasses to control EDITH, which after a few mishaps, he's gets a little used to. Now Peter doesn't really want to fill in for Tony and after Mysterio has come from another dimension to save our Earth, surely he's the ideal guy for the job. Peter thinks so but it turns out the guy is a bit of a prick. He used to work for Tony and got sacked. Quite an invented as we later find out and goes by the name of Quentin Beck. He takes EDITH and uses it for all sorts of devilish things. The other major part of Prague is regarding MJ. She works out who Peter really is and is pretty cool with the situation. Worried, but cool enough. So as the movie progresses, we get out the first major battle between Spider-man and Mysterio, as he finally shows his true potential as he creates images that completely disorientate Spidey but blow me away. Spidey gets smashed, ends up ask Happy for help and we get a cheeky yet little cheesy rendition of him creating a new suit to the music of AC/DC, just like his mentor did. The final fight takes place in London and after a pretty decent showdown, Spider-man gets EDITH back and saves the day, gets the girl and finally can go back to being a Neighbourhood Spider.
The storyline was a really good one, plenty of twists in there and a young guy who was torn and not really in a great place after the loss of his father figure but by the end and even throughout the movie, began to grow up and even fell in love.
We have come to know most of the characters in this movie, whether they bring the seriousness, frustration or comedy to the franchise, there is no change there. Other than the growth of Peter, which I have already touched upon, how can you not love the role that Jake Gyllenhaal played? His whole plot, the lightening speed of his transition from good to evil and then onwards from there was truly brilliant. Easily the stand out performance in this movie. The standout moment from me was when he thrust Spiderman into an altered reality. We saw a giant Mysterio, cartoon-like imagery, zombie Iron-man and much, much more. It has been one of my favourite characters introduced into a stand-alone Marvel movie in a little while. With that scene taking Spidey by complete surprise, it also did the same for me, it was an interesting use of special effects and voice over that resonated and stayed with me for a while afterward. Special effects were used a lot in this movie, down to the amount of Elemental usage but I far from think there was too much on show, it worked really well and it's just the way movies are these days.
If we had to touch on some bad points, we would be nitpicking but one for me had to be that it didn't totally feel like a Spider-man movie we have come to know. This may be a good thing to switch it up but with the lack of swinging from skyscrapers, not being in New York and although it was a school trip, the lack of school time or working a real-life job, did feel somewhat strange to me. Saying that, you can still tell that I really enjoyed this latest MCU installment, just before we hit the most trialling phase coming up. There isn't a massive amount on the list that is getting me excited. Before we go anywhere, we have to talk about those after credit scenes. J Jonah Jameson is back on the hunt for Spider-man and what's that he has? A video from a Mysterio that we thought was dead and it reveals that Spider-man is Peter Parker!? Holy shit, where do we go from here?? No-where is Disney and Sony don't stop measuring their dicks, now sort that deal out and make it stick! Otherwise, try creating Night Monkey.
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