Spider-Man: No Way Home Review

For months now there has been speculation that this movie has all the three spider-men in the same movie. Since this is spoiler free review, I will not confirm or deny those rumors.

However, as the movie goes, we can discuss it quality wise.

Compared to Spider-man 3 (2007) This is so much better than the conclusion of that trilogy. Its also a better film than Homecoming, but does not manage to surpass the breathless pacing of Far from Home.

Acting wise, Tom Holland has matured a lot as a performer and is excellent in the film. Zendaya as MJ too has come into her own as the character and does a fine job. Jacob Batalon as Ned is Spider-man steadfast friend who is solid. However, unlike Far From Home, this movie doesn’t have much of the class or his other friends in it. That is a loss as Martin Starr as Peter’s teacher Mr. Harrington was excellent in both the previous movies and he has barely a cameo in this film. Peter’s school is not heavily featured in the film as the story has a lot of other things going on.

That makes it simultaneously the Least and Most “MCU” movie in the trilogy. The Least because the MCU Spider-man was all about his school and his shenanigans with his class students. However due to Dr. Strange being in the movie its also the Most MCU Spiderman film till date.

Overall, there is a lot happening in the movie and it all starts from Peter Parker’s identity being revealed by Mysterio’s team at the end of the previous film

The villains of this film make up a bulk of the story and I was extremely glad to see that they didn’t waste the main villains for mindless action scenes. Their stories have so much heart, its possible to feel a bit bad for them and their sealed fate of dying while fighting their respective spider-man. This is the most compelling Spider-man movie in the MCU and ranks somewhere bit below Spider-man 2.

The direction and cinematography are all at expected level, with more web swinging action than in the previous films.

Rating: 8/10. This is a solid end to the first MCU spider-man trilogy.

Slight Spoiler Alert:

To Fully understand every reference, joke, easter egg and in general the plot, these following movies and shows are required watching.

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1. Spider-man (2002)

2. Spider-man 2 (2004)

3. Spider-man 3 (2007)

4. The Amazing Spider-man (2012)

5. The Amazing Spider-man 2 (2014)

6. Spider-man Homecoming (2017)

7. Spider-man Far From Home (2019)

8. Daredevil Netflix show (2015)

Also.

9. Dr. Strange (2016)

10. Avengers Infinity War (2018)

11. Avengers Endgame (2019)

12. Wanda-Vision (2021)

13. Marvel’s What if Season 1 (2021)