Spider-Man: No Way Home (2021) Movie Review | Spoiler Free
what’s going on to all my spider-man fans out
there and welcome back to my channel movie files
ellie back again with a brand new huge movie
review for the biggest film of the year maybe
the biggest mcu film since in game and yes the
easily the biggest spider-man film that we’ve
seen on the big screen we’re talking spider-man
no way home i saw the film last night in imax
came home sat down wrote down some notes we’re
talking pros we’re talking cons i’m gonna rank
my mcu spider-man at the end of this video
and oh yeah this is a spoiler-free review
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let’s talk hype level let’s talk about once you’ve
seen the film your pros your cons your favorite
moments least favorite moments go ahead and rank
obviously like i said this is the biggest film of
the year the most hype that a film has had besides
probably what in game which was almost two years
ago and this is so much going on with the movie
the leaks the rumors will this crack a billion
dollars let’s put that aside for the moment and
let’s talk about the movie starting off my pros
and i want to start off with the performances and
i want to talk about tom holland as peter parker
aka spider-man now me personally i am a fan of
this interpretation in the mcu seeing him interact
with the avengers all the stuff he’s went on the
the journey of homecoming far from home leading
him to no way home i enjoy the character now i
do understand the criticisms that people have
with them me and particularly him being in the
shadow of iron man sometimes is very annoying
but the thing that i think a lot of people that
we can definitely agree with he’s he’s a boy he’s
still maturing as we’ve seen him in the previous
iterations of the character within the context
of the mcu i’m happy to report for me personally
that boy has become a man in this film but let’s
talk about tom holland for a little bit this is
in my opinion his best performance in the role
he is giving you the charm and the charisma and
the yes the kitty moments that we’ve come to see
but more importantly he’s becoming an adult there
are decisions that tom holland as peter parker has
to make some good decisions some bad decisions
that he has to come across but i think that from
an emotional standpoint tom holland brought his
a-game in this role and more importantly for me
one of my things with spider-man and mcu
as far as going back to my criticisms
we never see him throwing hands we see him
webbing people up he’s kicking thanos in his
face but he’s never like told mcguire go back
to him fighting doc uh fighting the green goblin
we’re seeing punches being thrown right but we
don’t see that with tom holland but i’m happy to
say that in this film my man is throwing some one
two combo punches that made me really excited to
see him really kind of become his own man
in this film and like i said i think that
tom holland gives his best performance
but more importantly in that conversation
the biggest thing that i think a lot of us was
worried about me being one of them was is he gonna
get lost in a shuffle we’re getting all these
villains from previous films from other films from
different universes we’re getting all the hula
about who’s gonna appear who’s gonna cameo but
is it gonna be a peter parker tom holland story
for me he is at the heart of the story which i
really appreciate that so again tom holland does
a great job i think it’s his best performance as
peter parker so far in the mcu a character that
i really want to focus on here and the actress
that i’m a fan of and that is in daya as mj now i
have not necessarily been the biggest fan of how
john watts and her interpretation is this to be
so radically different from the mjs the gwen stacy
of the world and her just kind of becoming having
the snarky remarks and i think they tried to make
her so completely different from what we’ve seen
before that it kind of lost her being a character
but in this film this is her best performance that
we’ve seen the role and i’m so happy that zendaya
gets to portray this character gets to have some
more light-hearted moments she’s doing a lot more
than we’ve seen her do in the previous films
and i thought that she really kind of delivered
and kind of stepped out of that box of what we’ve
seen in homecoming and what we’ve gotten far from
home and she’s really kind of opened herself
up in this film and i really was a big fan of
zendaya’s portrayal as mj and again she has her
and ned have a lot more to do in this film and i
really kind of appreciate their growth in in the
role and getting a lot more to do in the film got
to talk about my man here my personal favorite
spider-man villain of all time is green goblin
willing to foe as green goblin without
spoiling anything i think he steals the movie
he is maybe the most menacing that we’ve ever
seen him i love the journey that character goes on
i love the fact that they stick to the roots
of what we saw from him and sam raimi’s version
and i again without getting into the details he is
completely menacing he and tom holland have some
incredible moments in this film him and and other
characters in this film in regards to william the
foe he’s fantastic if you’re a green goblin fan
you will be happy with the portrayal of him let’s
transition to another hero here in doctor strange
steven strange who i i’ll get to him a little bit
later in my criticism but i will say as far as
positively speaking yes his magic was cool to see
he’s doing some cool visual effects and there’s a
lot that you know is involved in his character and
decisions that he makes that’s gonna obviously
play into future mcu projects his sequel in
particularly so doctor strange his his powers are
cool and we’ll talk about him a little bit later
but uh yeah let’s move on to another character
who is a villain and that is alfred molina who’s
returning as doc ock now for me personally he
gets the opportunity to bring in the sam raimi
version of his character into the mcu and it’s 50
sam raimi and it’s 50 mcu and i’ll talk about that
mcu what i’m referring to in regards to changing
some of the stuff that we’ve used to seeing from
that character but i have to say alfred molina
brought his a game doc op he’s not my personal
favorite uh spider-man villain but he definitely
has some great moments in this film and i really
enjoyed the portrayal by alfred molina but let’s
transition over to another character who i did not
expect to have as much screen time as he gets
in this film without getting to the details
i want to say jamie foxx electro some of the stuff
didn’t work for me but i wanted to stay right now
he might have the funniest line i’ve heard this
far in the movie this far this year in any movie
and probably one of the greatest lies i’ve ever
heard in a comic book movie i won’t say what the
line is but electro expect a lot from him and is
like i said a line in this film that had me dying
laughing i’m just gonna leave it at that but let’s
kind of transition into the tone of the film now
the the way i’m putting this is i felt the tone
was inconsistently consistent now what i mean by
that is yes we get the kind of tropes that we’ve
gotten from home coming from far from home with
again the kind of the the john watts uh kind of
funny moments the the breakfast club type of vibes
but we also get the more serious moments in this
film which is the most serious i’ve seen in the
mcu regarding how spider-man has been interpreted
in this universe so i really enjoyed how the tone
did have the stuff that we’re used to but they
were able to blend in more of the seriousness
add more stakes to the to the moment and give us
a lot to look forward to in regards to switching
up the tone and again inconsistently consistent in
that tone in that narrative so one of the things
i also want to kind of touch base on in regards to
the structuring of the movie for me the first half
i really appreciated the fact that we actually
get a continuing storyline from the previous
spider-man film in far from home and the reason i
bring that up is because if you think about from
homecoming to far from home yes there’s characters
that obviously go from one film to the next film
and there’s some story beats that carry from one
film to the next but we really saw from far from
home it was really peter parker’s story from home
from in-game and from infinity war and not from
his own previous movie so i like the fact that
the first half focused on the ramifications and
the circumstances from the previous film to get
that baton from one movie to the next which i
really appreciated him going through stereo and
all the stuff that we got from the trailers that
we know from the film so i really appreciated
that aspect of the first half of the movie
and then without giving too much away from the
second half it it felt like i feel like a little
kid saturday morning cartoons watching spider-man
it has the nostalgia it has incredible action
it has incredible stakes it has incredible
emotions it has the labs it has one of the best
third acts of any mcu film today and be one of the
best third acts of any comic book movie to date
the third act definitely stuck the landing so
i do i do like the structuring of how they put
the film together and then lastly i will touch on
the themes in the movie i think the themes really
do shine through because it touches on things like
second chances believing in yourself making change
within yourself learning from your past mistakes
i really do think that they stuck the landing when
it came to the narrative and the themes that the
film had to present and then wrapping up my final
pros of the film there’s so many more things i
want to talk about but just kind of narrow it down
there are some jokes that do stuck to land and
i mentioned jamie foxx has a good moment and i
thought that they put the jokes in the hands of
the characters that should be telling the jokes
and it fit kind of perfectly within a narrative
and then the last thing i want to touch on
because i’m a big production head i mentioned
the visuals are great but i want to talk about
michael jacquino’s score it is absolutely bone
chilling it is incredible it just has so much
thrills and chills and it is just an almost a
perfect score in my opinion so michael jacquino’s
score is just fire in my opinion so let’s move on
to my criticism without getting into the details i
will say this isn’t really a christmas i just want
to bring this up for for all you all out there
this film definitely relies heavily on your
knowledge of seeing not just the mcu spider-man
story but sam raimi and mark webb’s film so
it will be very interesting i’ll be taking my
girlfriend to see this film who hasn’t really seen
the spider-man movies like the previous sam raimi
and and you know the mark will film so it will
be interesting and let me know in the comments
if you’re not too familiar with those films
how did you feel about this movie i’m just
kind of curious because it does rely on heavily
on youtube i don’t think i’ve ever seen a movie
that relies on the audience to know a movie from a
different universe it’s not even connected to this
universe so i’m really interested in how people
take that in but let’s move on to my criticisms
i talked about characters up top but
let’s talk more and particularly about
my criticisms with some of the characters
without giving away any spoilers i do feel
like some of the characters in particularly
the villains that come from other universes
were themselves at points but they also got
that mcu treatment and what i mean by that is
the jokes now again we know that mcu likes to
throw in the jokes because they’re you know family
friendly type of films but i feel like the the mcu
treatment was given to so many of the villains and
it kind of changed who they were their character
riches were different the only character i don’t
think got that treatment was norman osborne as
green goblin but everyone else to me juice was
like they had to it felt forced at times and it
felt like the mcu was trying to make them fit
into their narratives versus them being who they
were in their previous universe and i get they
have to make that change because they’re in a new
universe but it felt like again that mcu comedy
jokiness was a little bit overshadowing
who those characters were in my personal
opinion without again dive into the spoilers i
haven’t talked about the director john watts who
he had a lot to do there’s so much that this
director had on his shoulders again this is an
almost an avenger level type of film and we know
the avengers have been handled for the most for
the big ones you know infinity war in game were
handled by two guys the russo brothers and he has
a lot of weight on the shoulders and i think john
watts did a good job in direction but my criticism
with john watts is i still can’t after seeing
three spider-man films i saw his independent
horror film that came out in his first film i
think it was called clowns it’s an okay movie but
i still don’t know what a john watt film is right
i don’t think he has that flair he doesn’t have
that sensibility he doesn’t have the thing that
distinctively says that this is a john watts movie
and i feel like if he does have a style it’s like
sometimes i feel like john watts at least in the
spiderman movies the three movies that he’s
directed it’s like he sometimes undercuts the
seriousness with comedy and that’s an mcu thing
in general but i think that his films really do
moments that are supposed to be very serious very
emotional which there are moments of that in the
film but i feel like sometimes they were undercut
by the jokes and the the comic relief in the film
and i just have to say for me personally i’m very
intrigued to see what john watch does with the
fantastic four because he has been announced to be
the director but i am even more excited and this
is no knock on john watts but i’m really excited
to see another director with more of a voice
direct the next spider-man film because i am
assumed that john watts will probably not be
directing any more spider-man movies because
he’ll be dealing with the fantastic four so i’m
really excited to see who’s going to be the next
director in spider-man because i don’t think john
watts has a a full voice to kind of really give
his distinct style to these spider-man movies so
i talked about my man doctor strange a little
bit earlier and i have to say for me personally
i’m getting a little bit annoyed with dr strange
and the reason i say it is because i look at his
trajectory as the character to me he’s almost
getting ridden like the hulk because i think the
hulk has has just been completely demolished by
the mcu in regards to what the version the hulk
that we have here is and i compare dr schrader
to the hope because to me i wasn’t the biggest
fan of dr strange’s film i thought that he was the
most least interesting movie in his own film move
on to thor ragnarok whatever it was a small cameo
transition to infinity war which for me personally
that’s the best version dr strange so far in the
mcu in-game i mean my man was pretty much just
dealing with a body of water for the whole film
and then you bring doctor strange to this movie
i mentioned that his visual style his you know
his magical powers they’re visually studying
but man the power scaling for doctor strange
in this film was just so frustrating because i
thought they were completely sign line this is the
source of supreme and when you all see the film
you’re telling me that a source of supreme can’t
get out of the situation that he’s in i’ll just
kind of leave at that so i just for my personal
taste doctor strange just visually great cool
character the characterization and the decisions i
understand from my comic book fans out there and i
read the comics and i’m not like a super sweaty
spider-man lore uh comic book reader i do know
that there is a comic book run that involves a
very similar storyline with peter parker going
to dr strange to help you know clear his identity
all that stuff i understand that that’s out there
and that’s canon right or i should say that’s a
foundation of where this story kind of comes from
but for me in the mcu i don’t think i can forgive
the decision that dr strange does decide to
help peter parker with the spell it’s just so
irresponsible to me and in the film does try to
attempt to make the spells seem a little harmless
but at the same time they also make it seem like
it does have catastrophic events and circumstances
so i was just like doctor strange i’m still
excited for multiverse and madness i’m so excited
to see the progression of character but right now
i’m just not in a good spot with dr strange i’m
just gonna kind of leave it at that but moving on
to a little bit more of my frustrations with the
film if there’s a lot of contradiction in this
film without spoiling anything but i’ll just kind
of specify it to peter parker we know that peter
parker in the comics in the previous movies and in
the mcu his whole thing is he doesn’t want to get
his loved ones involved in his messiness that’s
why he he’s one of the few mcu characters that
has his identity uh hidden until obviously what
mysterio did and far from home but in this film
there are so many moments where peter parker would
say to ned to mj and to mary to his aunt aunt may
please don’t get involved i want you to be as
far away from the situation as possible i want
to fix this because i’ve made this mistake he says
that and then fast forward three four scenes later
hey aunt may ned mj i need your help can you help
me with these villains uh and help me fix my mess
it was just so many it’s like this is so weird to
see him kind of contradict himself in regards to
and again i know the avengers you know we got
captain marvel somewhere in space thor’s in space
the avengers have been dismissed but i felt like
there could have been i don’t know why he just
continuously brings his family his loved ones into
these circumstances again i know it creates stakes
but it’s just it was just a contradiction for
my personal taste so that was frustrating but
uh before we wrap this thing up give you all my
overall thoughts let you know where i’m gonna
rank this film as far as mcu spider-man films
if you haven’t already make sure to like the
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in the comments overall spider-man no way home
was a lot to take in but i will say it is messy at
points it but it is also incredibly entertaining
it’s filled to the brim with nostalgia tom holland
delivers his best performance and role so far and
again like i mentioned he becomes a spider boy and
becomes a spider man green goblin may be the most
menacing that we’ve ever seen him and i thought
that he stole the film i did feel like some of the
villains did get that mcu treatment in regards
to being overly jokey but overall no way home
will definitely be the talk of the town which is
deservingly so it’s the biggest film of the year
it definitely lives up to the hype and i will
say for you all out there that haven’t seen it
be careful for those spoilers but in the day
be prepared to feel like a kill again because
this has a lot of heart a lot of charm and it is a
great spider-man film so with all that being said
i’m gonna give spider-man no way home a four out
of five there’s a lot going on i i definitely want
to have a more of a deeper discussion with you all
maybe have a live spoiler review uh discussing all
the pros the cons what really worked what didn’t
work there’s a portion in the film that i did not
mention in all this review because obviously it’s
gonna dive into spoilers but there’s a lot to talk
about a lot to dissect this film but overall
like i said i’m giving it a four out of five
and uh i don’t have to recommend you all to see
it because it’s like i said it’s the biggest film
of the year so i expect you all to see it but i
want to know did it live up to your expectations
and also like i mentioned mcu rankings for my
personal sensibilities is my phantom of spider-man
homecoming and i’m just referring to the
mcu spiderman i’m not ranking all the other
spider-man films i’m gonna probably do that in a
spoiler review but in the mcu homecoming’s still
my number one spider-man film followed by no way
home and then far from home so that’s my rankings
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