A different direction

Rating: 8/10 (9 March 2018)

This is definitely not your typical Spider-man movie. Gone is the sentimentality of Maguire's movies, and also the mysteriousness of Garfield's movies. In this one, we get a Spidey that is young, inexperienced, and eager to please his mentor--no, not Uncle Ben--Tony Stark. After the events of Captain America: Civil War, Spider-Man is thrilled and wants to impress Iron Man. Unfortunately, in trying to do so, he gets into more trouble than he bargained for. You can't just call this a superhero movie, because it's visibly more than that. It's a coming-of-age teen movie, that happens to be about Peter Parker. We see our hero go through all the normal aspects of high school life: sitting alone in a cafeteria, asking his crush out on a date, the regular stuff. But, of course, it's a Spider-Man movie, so there's a lot of action, including a truly vertigo-inducing sequence involving the top of the Washington Monument. All in all, it's a step in a different direction for the Spider-Man character, but it's a welcome one.