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Don’t forget to select your favorite films!
This review may contain spoilers. I can handle the truth.
No Way Home is a great example that sometimes, a lot of the time, in fact, less is more.
Out of the arsenal of heroes and villains in this movie, the only ones who contributed to the plot were Tom Holland's Spider-Man, Dr Strange and Green Goblin, everyone else could have been cut. Most scenes with Andrew Garfield and Tobey Maguire felt like padding because it needed to make use of the characters but they didn't really have a purpose in being here. None of the villains except Green Goblin really do anything or have any kind of impact on the story.
Tag is a clean bro comedy. „Clean“ as in I have no complaints about it, it doesn’t reinvent the wheel but it doesn’t have to, that’s not what it’s supposed to do.
The cast is great, the jokes land, I love the style of comedy and the story, especially the ending, are surprisingly nice. I enjoyed every minute of it. Just a good movie.
I know this is primarily a horror movie but it could’ve done with way fewer horror scenes. It introduces characters with serious issues (Beverly strongly being implied to be sexually abused by her father being the biggest example) and most of them lead nowhere. Outside of her home we don’t see her situation having any effects on Beverly and once she kills her dad nothing changes. Similar situation with Mike, we get to see him in a situation that clearly…
This film is a bit different in that it switches between a broody, dark „Mads Mikkelsen has seen some shit and doesn’t talk much“ tone and on the other hand the bad guys are Kingsman-esque, exaggerated and colorful (though unlike in Kingsman they’re not very likable here but that’s on purpose). It’s a nice gimmick but it doesn’t really add anything to the film, this probably would’ve been better had it fully committed to the dark and broody tone.
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