Did I miss something??

Rating: 6/10 (17 July 2017)

I love Spidey, I grew up reading his comics (I have a massive collection somewhere) hearing that Spidey was appearing in Captain America: Civil War made my year, & he was amazing, funny, cheeky & seemingly in control of his abilities & how to handle himself. The Spidey sequence in CW is one of my favourites in the MCU, beaten only by Hulk punch after he & Thor bring down the alien whale in Avengers. So in my eyes for that sequence Spidey was right on the money.
Now he has his own film, set after CW & he apparently has no idea what he's doing, no clue on how to fight, & doesn't seem to know or understand the limits of his abilities. What went wrong? I'm not bothered about the race thing, it's 2017 so we should see a bit of diversity in comparison to when these comics first came about & who their target audiences were so that's cool with me, however, how do you get MJ from Michelle? Is this one of the many alternate Spidey Timelines cause that's just confusing as all hell!? MJ was always Mary Jane - I don't care if she's white, black, pink, blue or a duck MJ was never Michelle.
Vulture, great to see him on the screen at last & Michael Keaton just stole the show in this movie as far as I was concerned. But, why did the love interest have to be his daughter? Why did he need to find out who spied was? Even if he kept it to himself there's no need. & Aunt May????? No need Marvel, NO NEED!!!
If the film had less Tony Stark & gadgets it may have been a better Spidey Movie.
There was so much pomp & circumstance about this being the first Spidey movie in the MCU, I'm afraid that I saw no difference to this movie & the countless others that've been duped out over recent years. I'd hoped it would've been like the comics, it wasn't, it was a whole new entity. & I didn't enjoy it as I believe I should've done.
Credit where credit's due, the actors were really good & some of the Spidey myths were dealt with in this movie, more notably how long his webbing acts for & when he's not near tall structure he can't swing around.
Pay to see it if you want, but i'd suggest you wait until it's available to rent, it's no where near grande enough (in my eyes) to justify the cost of a cinema ticket.