Spider-Man: Far From Home

And now, everyone, we've finally arrived at the end of Phase 3 of the MCU and the follow-up to Avengers: Endgame, Spider-Man: Far From Home. Yet another comic book movie I was really looking forward to. Not only because Spider-Man is my favourite superhero ever, but also because Homecoming was perfect and I loved it. And given how this film was a sequel to that and was also looking like it was gonna delve more into comic booky aspects of the character of Spider-Man with the whole new villain characters, I was extremely excited for this. And so, was it, was it as amazing as I was expecting? Uh, it was pretty close. It was definetly more entertaining than I thought, which is not to say I didn't think I would be entertaining, but I just didn't entirely know what to expect despite being really excited. Which is not to say I didn't see some of the surprises coming, I just wanted to see how they'd execute them. And, yes, I'm gonna keep this spoiler free for the first part and then I'll get into all the spoilers afterwards. And, so, what's the story? We're shown Peter after the events of Endgame planning a trip he's taking with his class and him wanting to impress MJ. However, while on the trip, he encounters Nick Fury and Maria Hill along with Quinton Beck, A.K.A, Mysterio, played by Jake Gyllenhaal, who claims he's from another dimension and universe and is here to fight the Elementals, a group of different creatures with powers of the different elements. And I'm gonna stop there. The rest that I feel you should know is Peter doesn't want to be Spider-Man on this trip, he just wants to be alone with his class on this trip having fun. And that's really how I felt throughout the movie, a huge sense of fun and love for a lot of the things that happen here. This movie once shows Spider-Man at his best on the big screen here and Tom Holland once again nails every scene he's in. I love him as this character and I could watch him play Spider-Man forever. As a gigantic Spider-Man fan, this is exactly how I want to see him portrayed on film. I also liked the new red and black Spider-Man suit with the white spider symbol on the back, though I think I personally enjoy the red and blue more. And every other cast member is just as fantastic as they were in the first movie, especially Jacob Batalon as Ned again and I still really like him and Peter together. Something that is new to this though is the whole S.H.I.E.L.D aspect to it with Nick and Maria and they were really fun here. I always love seeing them in these movies and they were still great here. Especially during the first time we saw them. But, we can't go any farther without talking about one important aspect, Jake Gyllenhaal as Mysterio. This was something I was really looking forward to because I still believe Spider-Man has the best group of villains out of all the heroes of Marvel and I'm always excited to see a live action version of them, and Jake Gyllenhaal was great as this character. I loved almost everything with the character and some of the things they do are things I never would have thought I'd see in a live action movie, but they do and they were awesome to see. I've also always wanted to see how they'd do this character and give him the M.C.U treatment and what they do with it, for the most part, was pretty interesting. Something that's a huge aspect to this is the relationship between Peter and MJ and Peter constantly trying to impress her and confess how he feels, but something's always interrupting him and it makes the film much more entertaining that way. Personally, I think I would have liked it more if they kept Liz as the love interest, but this was a lot more entertaining than I thought it was gonna be. And just like all M.C.U movies, there's a lot of comedy and this film is definetly another great comedy. There's a lot of laugh out loud moments here and great quips from Spidey again like always. But along with those things that're always interrupting Peter as he's trying to confess how he feels, there's always something happening. Nick and the others are telling him how much he'd needed despite what he wants to do. The action is also incredible and Jon Watts did a really great job directing this movie as well, especially those action scenes that felt insane a lot of the time. It's of course got perfect looking C.G.I and it's still very intense because of how grounded it is. There isn't that much, but I'm fine with that because I enjoy watching these characters so much. I also liked how this didn't just have one location like a lot of these movies. This went to a lot of locations all over the world and that was a really fun  too, so it wasn't all just in New York. I just had such a great time with this and I thought it was insanely entertaining and a great follow-up to Endgame. However, while I really enjoyed this movie and thought a lot of it was really accurate to what I'd want to see as a Spider-Man fan, there is a couple of things that I thought were noticeable flaws. However, they're both spoilers, so I'll try to keep it as vague as possible, but the first has to do with a main character in the film and what they did with them, and the other is a scene with Spidey between the second and third act that was just weird to me and it didn't really make sense, but that's about it. I'll get into more details with those in the spoiler section. But, overall, Spider-Man: Far From Home is pretty much what I was looking for as a sequel to one of the best M.C.U movies ever in my opinion and once again shows why this is the best portrayal of Spider-Man on the big screen. I know this probably wasn't as detailed as other reviews, but I figure that's because it'll be better to talk about it in the spoilers. As for the non-spoiler part, I am so happy with this and it really did a great job of concluding Phase 3 of the M.C.U while still telling a story that really fits with what Endgame left it with. So, yeah, I highly recommend this. It's a really great time and I can't wait to see it again. Okay, now we're getting into the spoilers. If you haven't seen it yet, go see it and then read the rest of this.
Spoilers:
Okay, first off, I think the best aspect to this that I liked more than Homecoming was Happy's thoughts about Peter because he obviously likes him now and I liked the two of them together, especially during the scene on the plane when they were talking about Tony and what Peter was going to do next. That was awesome and really nice. But, before that, we got that really amazing scene where Quinton was trapping Peter in those illusions and everything that happens there is exactly how I always wanted to see Mysterio's powers work in live action and it looked fantastic. I also liked the climax with all the drones with Mysterio trying to fool everyone about what was really happening. And on that, yeah, Mysterio is obviously made out to be the villain, which I clearly knew was gonna happen, there was no way he was gonna be a hero no matter how well he pretended to be good. However, this leads me into the problem I had with the movie about a certain character in this and that's Mysterio himself. It's not that the character was bad, he was really enjoyable, I just thought he went way too over the top at times. I know this is a comic book world and movie and all that, but the M.C.U movies have shown they can do villains like this and not make them over the top in a way that's noticeable. Here however, I thought the whole thing with Mysterio in the bar with all his men was a little weird and I thought he was going a bit too over the top there. That being said, that bar scene did provide us with the fact that Obadiah Stane's man from the first Iron Man movie, William, is now working with Myserio and helping him. I liked how some of the character connections stretched back all the way to the first M.C.U movie. And, on that bar scene, I thought Peter handing over the glasses was weird. Not only was it stupid to do that, but I find it weird that he'd just give away the thing Tony left for him. I also didn't really liked that who Ned and Betty, gotta be honest. I thought some parts of it went on for too long and it wasn't very funny to me. The other problem I mentioned in the non-spoiler that I thought didn't make sense was the scene on the train where Peter is inside and is then miles away and then he's inside a cell in another country. I thought that didn't really make sense and they never really explained it. I also kinda thought the movie was a little bit too long. I think a couple of things could have been left out, but, for the most part, it worked really well. Now. let's talk about the credit scenes. The first one is really big, it has Mysterio sending a video to the Daily Bugle making it look like he was the one who was responsible with the climax and even tells everyone he's Peter Parker. That's honestly really big, I didn't expect that and I'm now really curious to know what they're gonna do with Spider-Man now. However, all of this is being shown by J. Jonah Jamison played again by J.K Simmons. That honestly blew my mind. I had heard how a lot of people wanted him back to play him again considering he was the perfect choice to play J.J and I didn't think that would be possible, but they actually did and I lost my mind when I saw that. It was so cool to see him and I can't wait to see more of him. And then, the last credit scene has Nick Fury being revealed to be Talos from Captain Marvel and Maria Hill was a his wife too while the real Nick Fury and Hill are in space somewhere with a crew of Skrulls starting up S.W.O.R.D. I actually have a friend who suspected they would be Skrulls, but I didn't think that was gonna happen either, but they actually did and that was a cool reveal although I'm kinda curious to know how long they've been like that, but, if I had to guess, I'd say it was some time after Tony's funeral. Which I liked and I'm really satisfied with what they did with a lot of things here. So for a future Spider-Man movie, I think the next best idea for a villain could be a lot of characters. I really want to see Venom and Carnage as well as the Green Goblin, but, I think the perfect fit for the next villain should be Kraven. Jon Watts himself has even said that and I actually think a good choice to play him should actually be Hugh Jackman because I think he looks the part really well. And so, everyone, that's my review of Spider-Man: Far From Home. Thank you all for reading and please comment down below to tell me what you think.