Madame Web (2024) - Movie Review

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Rating - 0/10

“He was in the Amazon with my mom when she was researching spiders right before she died.”

    Madame Web is not just a bad movie. It’s a cinematic catastrophe. A disaster so bland, so uninspired, and so devoid of purpose that it makes Morbius look like The Dark Knight. There’s nothing redeeming here. Not the acting, not the story, not even the action (what little there is). It’s the kind of film that feels like it was made by a committee of people who’ve never actually watched a superhero movie, but have heard they’re profitable.

    Dakota Johnson looks like she’s in a hostage situation every time she’s on screen. Her performance as Cassandra Webb has all the energy of someone reading cue cards for a corporate training video. The supporting cast isn’t much better, everyone feels lost, like they showed up expecting a different movie and decided to just roll with it.

    The story is a complete mess. It somehow manages to be both painfully predictable and totally nonsensical. The pacing drags, the dialogue is laughable, and the emotional beats fall flat every single time. The supposed “villain” barely registers as a threat, and the film’s idea of world-building is just name-dropping Spider-Man-related buzzwords and hoping the audience won’t notice how empty everything else is.

    And that’s the real problem, this movie never had a reason to exist. It’s part of Sony’s increasingly desperate attempt to build a Spider-Man universe without Spider-Man, and Madame Web might be the most embarrassing entry yet. There’s no tension, no creativity, and no fun. Just two hours of corporate filler masquerading as a superhero film.

    By the time the credits roll, you’re left wondering if anyone involved actually cared about what they were making. It’s joyless, lifeless, and somehow manages to fail in every single category that matters. Madame Web isn’t just bad, it’s proof that Sony’s Spider-Man villain universe has completely lost the plot.

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