Back To The Basics

Rating: 8/10 (7 July 2017)

I saw "Spider-Man:Homecoming", starring Tom Holland-The Lost City of Z, In the Heart of the Sea; Michael Keaton-The Founder, White Noise; Marisa Tomei-Trainwreck, Wild Hogs and Robert Downey Jr.-The Sherlock Holmes movies, Gothika.
This is the latest reboot of the Spider-Man franchise and thankfully, there is no origin story! I think by now, everyone should have an idea about what happened, if they have seen any of the other Spider-Man movies or read any of the books. This one has Tom/Peter Parker/Spider- Man as a 15 year old High School student facing the world with the fact that he has incredible powers, but he is still just a teenager. FYI: Tom was actually 19 years old when he began filming so he is pretty close to the age he is supposed to be playing here. It also takes place right after his debut in Captain America:Civil War. Robert/Iron Man is now mentoring Tom, until he is battle ready to become a full fledged Avenger-He even gives Tom a new fancy Spider suit with all kinds of built-in gadgets. Tom's excuse to Marisa/Aunt May is that he is an intern to Tony Stark. Michael/Adrian Toomes/Vulture plays a clean-up crew leader that takes care of cleaning up after the super fights the heroes always seem to be getting into. He stumbles across some alien technology and then decides to incorporate it into some new fancy energy weapons. FYI: You get to see early versions of other villains as henchmen working for Michael. And I must say, Michael makes a great villain. He gives him depth and he is not just a bad person doing bad things. Some funny scenes have Captain America doing PSAs-Public Sevice Announcements-for the High School. You will hear the classic Spider-Man theme-'Spider-Man, Spider-Man, does whatever a spider can'-at the beginning, Stan Lee makes his cameo and there are 2 end scenes. One as the end credits start and another at the very end so don't leave early. It's rated "PG-13" for sci-fi action violence and language and has a running time of 2 hours & 13 minutes. I really enjoyed this reboot that went back to the basics and I would buy it on Blu-Ray.