Spider-Man: Far From Home is the newest Marvel Studios production this time with Columbia Pictures instead of Walt Disney Pictures and is also the first movie to come after Avengers: Endgame where Peter Parker (Tom Holland) simply wants a nice Vacation after the events of the Thanos 2 parter where he can have fun, be with his chums and tell MJ (Zendaya) how he really feels about her, but when Nick Fury (Samuel L Jackson) calls on his help in regards to Quentin Beck (Jake Gyllenhaal) he has to don the Spidey suit once again.
Far From Home is an okay movie for me, it’s one of those where I feel that it certainly isn’t bad but it’s also one where I’m not wanting to go out and rave about it like I did Endgame or Dragon Ball Super: Broly or Rocketman which are my top 3 of the year so far, no this one just swings the webs along nice enough and I was happy for the most part.
And a large part of that is down to Mr Gyllenhaal as Mysterio, this character is one of my favorite villains from the Spider-Man comics and the animated series from the 1990s and my dream casting for this role has been Bryan Brown mainly due to the 1986 movie FX Murder by Illusion where he played Rollie Tyler a Special Effects expert who goes on the run after a suspected murder goes bad but Jake does good justice to the character and a lot of the action sequences involving him were a lot of fun.
Also Mr Holland is now very comfortable playing Peter and Spider-Man and does a great job with both roles after his somewhat finding his feet on the cobweb performance he showed at times in Homecoming back in 2017, I enjoyed seeing Ms Angourie Rice who was very good in Ladies in Black an underrated movie from last year get a bigger role while Zendaya is much better this time around as MJ with some nice hints to her backstory from previous movies and the animated series.
But alas this movie has 2 big drawbacks for me:
- Firstly the film is simply too long, its about 2 hours and 10 minutes and there were times where the film dragged at that length for me, I think if it lost a good 10 to 15 minutes I probably would’ve enjoyed the film a fair bit more.
- And Secondly I really didn’t like a lot of the films humour, a lot of the timing just fell face first in the mud for me and the way the jokes play out in an editorial sense it just felt like they dragged on those gags for too long and it stopped being funny and I can tell to a certain extent when comedy doesn’t work very well for me and here it didn’t after a while and I got a bit sick of it at the end.
Lastly the 3rd act climax is pretty underwhelming now I won’t elaborate on that too much but I will say that it could’ve been a whole lot better and more visually inspiring.
And so that was Spider-Man: Far From Home and its okay, it’s a fun time but if it wasn’t for Mysterio being done really well I don’t think I would’ve liked it all that much in all honesty, 2 and a half out of 5.
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