The wear and tear that Marvel
films are experiencing
takes its toll even on a Sony film, in which Marvel partially participates.
Neither
Dakota Johnson
, the daughter of Don Johnson and Melanie Griffith, nor Sydney Sweeney, from
Euphoria
and in the current success in theaters of
With Everyone But You , manage to save
Madame Web
from disaster
.
They didn't even include a post-credit scene.
We are in New York, and Peter Parker does not appear, but another Parker does (Ben, who was the uncle).
Whether this leads to a sequel, or to integrate these characters into the spider multiverse, will depend on how it goes with the public.
As it already did with
Morbius
and
Venom
, Sony appeals to individuals who are not very protagonists in Marvel comics.
The two mentioned and Madame Web are like marginal characters.
His ability to see the future and connect different realities is not enough.
Photos: Sony/Marvel
But something has changed.
If in the original Madame Web was a blind old woman who moved in a wheelchair and had strange psychic powers, now she is the young actress from
Fifty Shades of Grey
, she is a paramedic and drives an ambulance.
Cassie (for Cassandra) who experiences visions of terrible things, which are about to happen, but, and when there is a but, there is hope, with enough notice to prevent them.
And if his abilities include being able to "be in more than one place at the same time," the question is how did he acquire those powers?
The bad guy, who has a nightmare that three spider superheroines will kill him.
Everything starts like in
Raiders of the Lost Ark
, in some lost place in the Amazon jungle, in Peru.
There are no Indians, but Constance (Kerry Bishé) is looking for nothing more than a spider that would have healing properties.
It's not easy to find it.
And the scientist, eight months pregnant, disbelieves in the myth that Las Arañas live there, “spider men who run through the treetops.” He who doesn't believe doesn't know what he's missing.
All this is the beginning, and it ends badly.
Betrayed by a member of the expedition, Ezekiel Sims (Tahar Rahim, with such a great resemblance to Nico Del Caño, that I couldn't stop thinking about the left-wing deputy throughout the screening, every time he appeared), who wants the spider, but with other less benevolent purposes, Constance is killed by Ezequiel there, in the middle of the jungle, but not before being bitten by a spider.
With his mouth open.
The girls, together with Madame Web, on the subway in New York. How scary.
Before dying, The Spiders - who, like witches, do not exist, but they do exist, do exist - take her to give birth to the water.
And the actions move to a future, which is actually a current past, because it takes place in New York, in 2003. Constance has transmitted the powers of the spider to Cassie, her daughter, who is now 30 years old.
How do her premonitions and powers awaken?
She has an accident and she dies - for a few moments, eh, because the movie has to continue - and when she wakes up, just after a while, she already glimpses what is going to happen in the immediate future.
Premonitions
Starting from the fact that the premonitions are of the type of the
Final Destination
saga , but with less morbidity because children have to be herded to the cinemas, the fact that it is like a repetitive deja vu even makes one think of
Spell of Time
,
The Day of Groundhog
.
Sydney Sweeney is quite wasted in the film.
But here we are talking about another type of groundhog.
Madame Web
fails where a superhero movie, or at least an action movie, cannot fail.
The script does not go beyond Ezequiel's pursuit of the three teenagers with whom he has recurring nightmares, in which they kill him in the future: Julia Cornwall (Sydney Sweeney), Anya Corazon (Isabela Merced) and Mattie Franklin (Celeste O 'Connor), but the action is rather scarce and the effects... If they were complaining about
Ant-Man
's ...
"Madame Web"
Regular
Action.
United States, 2024. 117', SAM 13.
From:
SJ Clarkson.
With
: Dakota Johnson, Sydney Sweeney, Tahar Rahim.
Theaters:
IMAX, Cinemark Palermo, Hoyts Dot, Cinépolis Recoleta and Houssay, Showcase Belgrano.