Excellent Movie; Ranks Amongst the Best of the MCU

Rating: 9/10 (19 August 2017)

Great movie! It successfully balanced drama, action, and humor. Most of the jokes, while predictable, are hilarious (especially the post-credits scene, which is too good to spoil). The action sequences, while slightly overstuffed, are excellent, and while this movie uses a ton of CGI, it is good CGI. Performance-wise, all of the actors are excellent. Tom Holland is amazing as both Peter Parker and Spider-Man, showcasing Parker as a convincing ultra-geek/nerd and Spider-Man as having slightly more confidence than Parker, but still as a hero who is still convincingly inexperienced. The Vulture/Adrian Toomes is not the greatest movie villain as a character, but Keaton's performance as Toomes is the best performance of the movie, and quite possibly of the MCU. The musical score is excellent. I only have three points of criticism: 1. Flash Thompson is a proved jerk in the movie, but he does not have enough screen time for the audience to absolutely despise him. 2. Michelle does not have enough screen time to be anything but simply there. 3. There are too many villains, and their operations are too complex to be understood in a single viewing. Still, a great movie, and I would give it 9.5 or 9.75 stars instead of 9 if I could.