Spider-Man: Homecoming (2017)

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	Year of first release: 2017
	Director: John Watts (Cop Car)
	Actors: Tom Holland (Locke), Michael Keaton (Birdman, Batman), Robert Downey Jr. (Iron Man 1-3)
	Country: USA
	Genre: Action
	Conditions of visioning: 20.10.2017, VOD, 32" TV screen
Synopsis: After his first experience of teaming up with the Avengers (in Captain America: Civil War), Peter Parker a.k.a. Spider-Man (Holland) can't wait for a new assignment. As it doesn't come he starts to fight small crimes and stumbles upon a dealer of Alien weaponry.
Review: An intriguing choice from Marvel to have introduced this "new" character in its Cinematic Universe first in a Captain America movie, to give it his stand-alone adventure only after. Forget about the genesis of the super-hero (everyone knows he was bitten by a special spider), the excellent self-consistent Spider-Man trilogy by Sam Raimi and the useless more recent adventures of The Amazing Spider-Man, the only raison d'être of this Homecoming is that it is set in the same Universe as where evolve the others like Iron Man for example. Sadly I found that it is also its only interest. More than in any other movie of the Franchise, the connections are not only hinted but spelled out in big letters: views of New York and the Stark Tower, Stark's bodyguard Happy and Tony Stark himself (Downey Jr.) showing up a few times. Because contrarily to the "classic" Spider-Man story, in this one Peter Parker has a mentor in the person of Tony Stark and that drives its character a lot. Exit the poignant death of Parker's uncle and his touching old aunt in Raimi's trilogy, here it is all about Action and stunts and Parker cracking jokes and over-explaining everything while in the suit given to him by his mentor. And where does this young sexy aunt come from?!? And the villain might be cool-looking and his motive fitting in the Marvel Universe, I am not sure Michael Keaton was the right cast. I am pretty sure that as soon as he wears his suit, he becomes all CGI, and the same probably goes for Spider-Man. If Marvel is customizing its different movies to different audience groups, Spider-Man : Homecoming is definitely aimed at kids, and to me one of the most useless additions to the multi-billion dollars saga.
Rating: 4 /10