Review Spider-Man: No Way Home (Spoiler Alert!)
By: Muhammad Prabu Mutawakkil
Tags: Spider Man No Way Home, Marvel, Spider Man

If you haven’t watched the movie, better to skip the whole article. Read it at your own risk if you still decide to read it.

Most of us would be disappointed with Tobey’s Spider-Man 3, dislike Andrew’s Peter Parker, and disappointed about Tom’s portrayal as both Spider-Man and Peter Parker. But No Way Home makes all of your negative opinions disappear.

No Way Home is surprisingly amazing! Despite the plot and the concept being ‘basic’, MCU (and Sony) did a great job for it. Some reviews said that it’s has a huge chance to fail, but thankfully it doesn’t happen. So far, it’s the best live-action movie of Spider-Man.

Almost everything on the trailer is present in the film. Lizard, Sandman, Electro, Doc Ock, Green Goblin, and of course Tobey and Andrew finally showed up in No Way Home. So there is no need to introduce a new character that we can be more focused on the plot. Even all of the actors remain the same!

It could be better if the trailer were made like Endgame that makes the audience clueless before watching the film. NWH’s trailer reveals too much to be honest.

The film starts directly after the event of Far From Home where Spider-Man’s identity is revealed. Instantly, Peter’s life changed so dramatically after everyone believe what Mysterio said that Spider-Man is a criminal. After Peter asks for help from Doctor Strange to resolve everything, it just makes it worse that they need to fix it together.

It can be said that the ‘introduction’ of every villain runs smoothly. At the first, they were just confused because they realized that they’re in the wrong universe and timeline. Even though they knew Peter Parker and Spider-Man, but they realized it’s a different Peter and Spidey.

Sandman knew that Otto was drowned. Meanwhile, Otto thought Norman is a ghost because he’s stabbed to death before. They don’t know about Curt Connors and Max Dillon and vice versa.

Willem Dafoe reprising his role as Green Goblin is perfectly awesome! He can be terrifying both in Original Spider-Man and also in NWH. Don’t forget that how cool Alfred Molina comeback as Doc Ock. Both of his personality and appearance resemble in Spider-Man 2, thanks to the de-aging effect.

Obviously, it’s Tom’s movie but Andrew also stole the spotlight due to his performance. It’s heart-warming when we see Andrew save MJ from falling, his reaction was speechless since he couldn’t do the same with Gwen before. Also seeing Tobey back gave so much nostalgia that can make adults looks like excited kids.

Seeing back this scene won’t be the same after watching No Way Home. (Source: Gwen’s Fall Scene)

So far, MCU’s Spider-Man is the best one in terms of character development. Peter Parker was introduced as a naïve and “helpless” teenager and ended with a grown-up independent adult after he lost all of his privileges in a tough way. He’s started with Stark’s Hi-Tech, got mentored, has a family and friends that genuinely take care of him, now it’s all gone.

The largest node of Peter’s character development is when he asks Doctor Strange to make everyone forget about him. He’s sacrificing such a huge thing to fix his own mistakes.

No Way Home is flawless in every aspect. It’s perfectly closing for the “Home” trilogy, gave Andrew a redemption, reunion with Tobey, introduce the concept of the multiverse, and elegant fan-services.