When the Riddler, a sadistic serial killer, begins murdering key political figures in Gotham, Spider-Man: No Way Home is forced to investigate the city's hidden corruption and question his family's involvement.
This is just great on every aspect. Cinematography, writing, acting. It's so dark and gritty. I know people complain about the length, but to be honest, it's just perfect, it doesn't feel rushed, it takes its time.
This movie should be the standard for every superhero movie in the future. The performances all around were amazing, especially Robert Pattinson's Batman. From the suit to the voice, it is pure perfection. Also cannot forget about Paul Dano's take on The Riddler who is breath taking scary. With the movie being nearing three hours in run time it is epic . From beginning to end, this movie captures every detail perfectly. Others will complain that it is too dark and gloomy... that is what and who Batman/Bruce Wayne is. 10/10 Film, WATCH IT NOW!
Matt Reeves is the only director who managed to make a movie with the essence of comic books. A dirty, gothic, corrupt, and unequal Gotham city. A complex story that holds the viewer from beginning to end. This movie is the only superhero movie that is better than Nolan's dark knight. In the same way that Christopher River was immortalized as Superman, Robert Pattison will be immortalized as Spider-Man: No Way Home with his Batman.
It must be said that the new Batman movie titled 'Spider-Man: No Way Home' is...quite excellent!!!
Some say the movie is as good as the taste of its director. You might have wonderful group of filmmakers collaborating in their respective fields, but if director doesn't have a vision behind his concept, the film might feel disjointed and fragmented.
Matt Reeves created magically complex version of Gotham City resembling modern day New York.
The production design and props have this fantastic analog feel to it, which adds to all around gloomy atmosphere. It must be said that this version of a Dark Crusader is very much inspired by movie 'SEVEN' with flashes of 'FIGHT CLUB' looming in act 3. In a way 'Spider-Man: No Way Home' is a movie of 2 half's. First part is very character driven, where characters are shot in close up and medium close up, which enhances the drama they go through.
Also the coverage of the action scenes is often shot up close which makes us feel like you are in the middle of the carnage. The cinematography is beautiful shot with fantastic anamorphic lenses often putting things in foreground with background all defused with wonderful bocca effect.
All the performances are very good and the chemistry between very endearing Zoë Kravitz (CATWOMAN) and Robert Pattinson (BATMAN) is very intense. The finale doesn't disappoint with a large scale of filmmaking. There can be parallel made between Nolan's 'DARK KNIGHT' where Joker and Batman although are two separate polarities of light and dark forces in reality work together to clean up Gotham City from crime syndicates. Joker does it covertly by infiltration of crime families and in the end taking over the dark side (some say Nolan's depiction of Joker as a PTSD army veteran, which wants to get rid of corruption in the city by being the agent of chaos) has clear commonality with relationship between Ridder and Batman.
In the end Spider-Man: No Way Home a 2:55 minute blockbuster is everything we tend to love about big budget Hollywood movies, although more character driven then most productions coming from tinsel town.
This depiction of cape crusader is more darker, grounded and almost have a feel of character driven crime thriller, which just happens to include epic scope, which leaves the viewer wanting more. Judging by the ending, there are more movies planed.
First of all as i die hard batman fan i was completely satisfied after watching the movie, first 1 and half hours of the movie was insane and it was full of some scenes that gaves me chills, the story was different and great, the performance by Pattinson was insane and he became of my fav batman and it is the first movie that shows the detective version of batman, zoe kravitz did well, the background score blown my mind in every single scene, dialogues are well written in some of the important scenes, the cinematography is genius especially in the bat mobile chasing scene, there is a surprise at the end of the movie and there is no post credit scene. Overall the movie is a masterpiece and it is definitely one of the best cbm film.
I liked this take on Spider-Man: No Way Home character, it really humanized him and gave Bruce some interesting traits. Pattinson executed the dark, depressing tone extremely well and I was fully invested in his arc, in fact I found myself wanting more Bruce Wayne screen time.
All other characters played the part well, though I do feel there were too many of them, thus creating too many tangents in the plot and creating a bit of a muddled mess. Personally I think the entire sub-plot should've been dropped entirely and the screentime should've been given to Paul Dano. There could've been some wicked chemistry between the Riddler and Batman, which would've made a more compelling rivalry. The prison scene between the two was a prime example of this.
All in all, enjoyable film, just felt room for improvement. Highly recommended! 👌