With a whimper the SSU dies.
I think everyone could tell you that this film was going to bomb before it came out, it had disaster written all over it from its moment of announcement.
Sony needs to answer a very simple question, why do we need villain films without Spider-Man? The answer is we don’t.
This film once again is a villain origin story that tries to make the villain cool and likeable, as it is too afraid to have them be anything other than an anti-hero as who wants a true crime film that shows the rise of one of Spider-Man’s greatest foes and has him always be evil. No they have to be made into the good guy in some way even though that means the idea of them later banding together to form the Sinister Six to fight Spider-Man another good guy makes no sense at all.
The drugs must be in plentiful supply over at Sony for them to make such an unenforced error like this, or maybe they just don’t realise what audiences want. Remember gang Madame Web was a great film it only flopped as the critics hated it.
It also features other Spider-Man adjacent characters and messes with their origins and backgrounds too, as who watching this will care about the comics right.
Overall, a necessary death.
2/5
Pros.
It has some fun moments
The action is good
Cons.
It gets the source material wrong
It feels the need to make Kraven a hero
It is too long
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