I kind of expected that 'Madame Web' wouldn't be a good movie. That's why the main question for me was whether it was better or worse than 'Morbius'. In the end, I can say that it's maybe slightly better, but still not even remotely worth seeing.
Lead actress Dakota Johnson isn't the problem, though, even if she doesn't necessarily appear as if she enjoyed being on set. On the other hand, Tahar Rahim is a disaster as the villain, Ezekiel Sims. He delivers one of the worst performances I've ever seen in a superhero movie. Sydney Sweeney, Celeste O'Connor, and Isabela Merced, meanwhile, are not worth mentioning as future Spider-People. Each of them is assigned exactly one character trait; they end up being nothing more than that.
A big problem with the movie is that you spend about two hours wondering when it's finally gonna kick into gear - and then it just ends. Occasionally, something is teased that could come in a later movie and would certainly be much more worth seeing. So 'Madame Web' works more or less like an overlong post-credit scene. In the sense that the only purpose of the movie is to foreshadow a more interesting movie that will surely never come.
I kind of feel sorry for Marvel Studios. They're only releasing one movie this year to address superhero fatigue, and then Sony swoops in. I'm sure there are still a lot of moviegoers who don't understand the difference between the MCU and Sony-Marvel. And then this movie is intentionally designed to somehow fit in with the Tom Holland movies. That's definitely going to cause some people to draw the wrong conclusions.
To sum up, I can only describe 'Madame Web' with one word, and that is Pepsi (in fact, with the aggressive product placement, you can kind of draw a parallel between MCU/Sony and Coca-Cola/Pepsi).
Review by ToralfVIP 3BlockedParent2024-02-16T22:27:29Z
I kind of expected that 'Madame Web' wouldn't be a good movie. That's why the main question for me was whether it was better or worse than 'Morbius'. In the end, I can say that it's maybe slightly better, but still not even remotely worth seeing.
Lead actress Dakota Johnson isn't the problem, though, even if she doesn't necessarily appear as if she enjoyed being on set. On the other hand, Tahar Rahim is a disaster as the villain, Ezekiel Sims. He delivers one of the worst performances I've ever seen in a superhero movie. Sydney Sweeney, Celeste O'Connor, and Isabela Merced, meanwhile, are not worth mentioning as future Spider-People. Each of them is assigned exactly one character trait; they end up being nothing more than that.
A big problem with the movie is that you spend about two hours wondering when it's finally gonna kick into gear - and then it just ends. Occasionally, something is teased that could come in a later movie and would certainly be much more worth seeing. So 'Madame Web' works more or less like an overlong post-credit scene. In the sense that the only purpose of the movie is to foreshadow a more interesting movie that will surely never come.
I kind of feel sorry for Marvel Studios. They're only releasing one movie this year to address superhero fatigue, and then Sony swoops in. I'm sure there are still a lot of moviegoers who don't understand the difference between the MCU and Sony-Marvel. And then this movie is intentionally designed to somehow fit in with the Tom Holland movies. That's definitely going to cause some people to draw the wrong conclusions.
To sum up, I can only describe 'Madame Web' with one word, and that is Pepsi (in fact, with the aggressive product placement, you can kind of draw a parallel between MCU/Sony and Coca-Cola/Pepsi).