A Truly Awful One Star

Rating: 1/10 (18 November 2017)

Someone reviewing another movie recently wrote 'Every One Star or Ten Star is a lie' – don't believe them – I gave this one star (because you can't give zero), and I'm a genuine poster making a genuine review. The reason quite simply, is that it is not a Spider-Man movie, - if they had changed the costume and given it the title 'Adopted Son of Iron Man', it would have been a fine, if formulaic, super hero film incorporating the usual teenage trials and tribulations. As it is presented, it is an abomination for any fan of the comics (and I've been reading them since the first issue by the way). It seems par for the course these days that the media in all forms seems compelled to make concessions to the brave new world our social engineers have conjured up for us, but this thing takes it to new, totally unrecognisable (basic costume design aside of course) lows – I'm sure others will have covered everything I'm going to say here, from the fact that the main character (sticking to walls aside) bears little resemblance to the comic character (no spider sense, or it seems, increased strength), to the far more problematic changes to almost every supporting character out of all recognition for what must only be a super powered diversity and political correctness enforcement team operating at the Marvel studio. I won't bother going into all the PC problems with this film as plenty of others must surely list them, and I think I've given it more of my time writing than it deserves. Why do they need to make such changes? Anyway – a truthful one star from me.