Spider-Man: Far From Home (2019)

Far From Home is the follow-up to Homecoming (2017), and that's how I watched them on this re-watch. But a lot has happened between these two Spiderman movies that's "explained" in more detail in other Marvel movies. Not that you need to watch every Marvel movie released in order to understand what's going on, but "the blip" and the death of Tony Stark are pretty big deals that this film mentions but doesn't address in any detail.

I re-watched Homecoming and loved it from beginning to end. It was well-paced, focused, funny. Far from Home isn't horrible; it's still funny, but I wasn't as into the humor this time as I was for Homecoming.

I'm also not sure how I feel about the European setting, and the completely lack of any supporting superheroes for Spider-Man. When Peter Parker is living his normal life in New York, who has the responsibility to protect Europe? If the world was really facing an apocalyptical event, would it really be up to Spider-Man to save the world? And why didn't Nick Fury better vet Mysterio?

As I said earlier, the film is okay, and there is that interesting ending -- the world is going to be made to believe that Spider-Man is the bad guy... even the name of "Peter Parker" has been outed. So, the film does its job as a sequel, which is to make you curious and interested to learn how the next film will address some questions raised by the previous film.

Rating: 3/5 stars

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