Refreshing, but not impressive take on the character!

Rating: 7/10 (23 May 2020)

I honestly didn't have a lot of expectations for this movie, but it came out a bit better than I expected. Let's start with the positives that I think outweigh the negative.
Putting Peter on highscool and not showing his origin story is, in my opinion a great move. It's a story we've already seen twice, and if this movie was an origin story as well we would have seen 3 Spiderman origin stories within 15 years. That would be one Spiderman origin story every 5 years! Highscool is also a new place for movie Spidey (No that one Raimi scene with the 18 year olds than look like 38 year olds doesn't count) and thank god we didn't have to see ANOTHER Uncle Ben death scene. Tom Holland is great in this. Not sure if he's as god as Tobey but he encapsulates a young Peter very nicely! I also like how Peter's suit is handed to him by Stark, how am I supposed to believe that a 15 year old boy made a suit on his own. Plus said suit looks great. The humour is ok, nothing to bring you to tears but not annoying either. I also really like the plot. I love that for once Spidey has to stop something relatively small. He doesn't have to stop a reactor from swallowing the city or an alien species that takes over people. Just a gang with high tech weapons. And that's fine. Also the twist is very well executed! Speaking of it, Michael Keatons Vulture is a great villain with some of the most realistic motivation for turning evil that I've seen in a superhero movie. Lastly some scenes like the one where Spidey rescues his friends are very fun and all in all the movie is very enjoyable.
Now for the bad...
By far the biggest problem here is the action, that is the worst in any Spiderman film to date. The bank scene is short, the ferry fight is meh and the final fight is nice, but not too impressive. There are a few other minor ones that aren't even worth mentioning. Very disappointing action. Plus, not a huge fan of Aunt May here, and Flash is just kinda sad to watch. I also forgot Shocker was in the movie, but it doesn't matter as he's a minor villain in the comics anyways. By the way, yes the overeliance on tech is a bit annoying, yet it's great that in the final fight he only has his web shooters, proving he's Spiderman even without the suit (unlike a certain Black Panther). Lastly, there is a slightly excessive useof cgi at times. The movie doesn't have Black Panther level bad cgi, but it's not that great either.
Plot and villain elevate this movie, bit lackluster action prevents it from being great. 7/10.