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 no spoilers whistle ever i'm so excited to be here  with you all but before we dive into it quick call to action check me out on all my other social  media accounts if you all are new to the channel consider subscribing and hitting that notification  bell and as you can see on the screen now if you enjoyed the review well make sure to like the  video share the video but more importantly go ahead and leave your thoughts in the comments  le

t'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 your spider-man movies in the comments below so  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 ta

lk 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 so

metimes 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'v

e 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 l

ike 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 f

ilm 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 witho

ut 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 c

ool 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 th

e 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 a

s 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 le

t'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  i

n 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 incredi

ble 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 treat

ment 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  have

n'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 sometime

s 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 exci

ted 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 lo

t 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 ma

ry 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 spa

ce 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 v

ideo share the video and leave your thoughts  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 vi

llains 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 r

ecommend 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 let me know yours in the comments again share  your pros your cons and everything in between in the comments below if you stuck around to this  point of video i appreciate every single one of you all again before you leave make sure to like  share comment and subscribe to the channel and hit that bell that way you don't miss any of my  future reviews what a crazy 24 hours saw this film i woke up this morning saw hawkeye episode 5  which we'

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