Turning attention then back to this current weeks new release films, we kick off with the 27th film in the MCU that sees the webslingers true identity now revealed, so he asks the Master of the Mystic Arts for help in making the world forget, but, when a spell goes awry, dangerous enemies from other worlds start to appear. Next up we have an acclaimed drama about a woman's beach vacation on an idyllic Greek island that takes a dark turn when she begins to confront the troubles of her past. This is followed by two roommates' whose lives are upended after finding out that their new Manhattan apartment holds a dark secret. And we close out the week with a German and French offering about a woman working as a historian lecturing on Berlin's urban development, but, when the man she loves leaves her, an ancient myth catches up with her, that says she has to kill the man who betrays her and return to the water.
Whatever your taste in big screen film entertainment is this week - be it any of the four latest release new movies as Previewed below, or those doing the rounds currently on general release or as Reviewed and Previewed in previous Blog Posts here at Odeon Online, you are most welcome to share your movie going thoughts, opinions and observations by leaving your relevant, succinct and appropriate views in the Comments section below this or any other Post. We'd love to hear from you, and in the meantime, enjoy your big screen Odeon outing during the coming week.
I saw 'SPIDER-MAN : FAR FROM HOME' earlier this week, which is classified with an 'M' rating. Here this twenty third film in the Marvel Cinematic Universe is a direct sequel to 2017's 'Spider-Man : Homecoming' and follows on shortly after the events of 'Avengers : Endgame'. Directed once again by Jon Watts this film had a budget of US$160M, compared to 'Homecoming' which had a budget of US$175M and grossed worldwide US$880M, and was released in the US last week too, one day after its Australian release earlier last week on Monday 1st July. Off the back of that US$160M production budget the film has so far grossed US$622M within its first ten days since release making it the sixth highest grossing film of 2019 to date, and has been positively Reviewed.
The film opens up with a black sedan vehicle weaving through the wreckage of the former community of Ixtenco, in Mexico, where the locals are reported to have seen a violent sand storm whip up, with a face. Out of the car step Nick Fury (Samuel L. Jackson) and Maria Hill (Cobie Smulders) just as the sand storm whips up again threatening to flatten what is left of the already destroyed town. Appearing in a flash of green light Quentin Beck (Jake Gyllenhaal) arrives to destroy the seemingly otherworldly entity, which we learn subsequently is the Earth Elemental.
Meanwhile, back in New York City, the Midtown School of Science and Technology restarts its new academic year to welcome back the students who were among those brought back to life in 'the Blip' (aka 'the Snap!') some eight months ago. The school organises a two-week summer science field trip to Europe, where Peter Parker (Tom Holland), still distraught over the death of his friend and mentor Tony Stark, plans to confess his emerging feelings towards classmate MJ (Zendaya) and stay well clear of any acts of heroism. A plan which he talks over with his good friend Ned Leeds (Jacob Batalon) on the eve of their departure. At a fundraiser for the homeless coordinated by his Aunt May (Marisa Tomei) Parker is forewarned by Happy Hogan (Jon Favreau) that Nick Fury will contact him, but Parker chooses to ignore the call when he calls through much to Happy's chagrin. Parker leaves after being overwhelmed by the gathered media by questions about Stark, the Avengers, and whether Spider-Man is now going to step up and lead the Avengers.
Parker and his friends board the flight to Venice. Shortly after arriving, Venice is attacked by the Water Elemental, which proceeds to wreak havoc on the city causing Parker's fellow classmates to flee for their lives. Beck arrives and destroys the creature, while Parker attempts to help. Afterwards Fury meets with Parker and gives him Stark's glasses, which were intended for his successor. The glasses are equipped with the artificial intelligence 'E.D.I.T.H.' (Even Dead I'm Top of the Heap), which can access all of the Stark Industries databases and commands a large orbital weapons cache.
At a subsequent meeting in an underground operations centre, Beck and Parker come face to face for the first time. Beck claims that these 'Elementals' - four extradimensional humanoids who became immortals with power over natural forces and who ruled a kingdom on Earth before the rise of the original Atlantis, which are Earth, Water, Fire and the Wind all killed his family and that he hails from a different reality known as Earth-833, one among many in the Multiverse. Upon hearing this, Parker begins to hypothesise about the existence of this Multiverse, but is quickly dismissed by Fury.
Fury states that Parker's talents are needed in Prague and for him to turn his back on his schoolmates and live up to the responsibilities that have been thrust upon him, and to continue with Tony Stark's legacy. However, Parker flatly rejects Fury's call to action, opting instead to rejoin his classmates. Fury covertly redirects the school's trip itinerary to Prague, where the Fire Elemental is anticipated to strike. Roger Harrington (Martin Starr) one of the school teachers accompanying the kids, organises tickets for the whole class to attend the famed Prague Opera much to everyone's disliking, instead of attending a massive carnival that same night. The Fire Elemental appears at the carnival where MJ and Ned, with his new love interest and fellow classmate Betty Brant (Angourie Rice) have snuck away from a night at the opera, to attend. Beck, who by now has coined the name 'Mysterio' by the world's ever present media, with Parker's help, destroys it, but not before the Fire Elemental was able to trash a few city blocks and the carnival show ground.
As a result of their success in overcoming the Elementals, Fury and Hill invite Parker and Beck to Berlin to discuss the formation of a new Superhero team. Over a drink in a bar somewhere in Prague later that evening, Parker considers Beck more worthy than he of being Stark's successor, a responsibility that he feels less than qualified to take on, and as such commands the E.D.I.T.H. glasses over to Beck as being a more suitable Superhero than he will ever be - after all, Parker is just your friendly neighbourhood Spider-Man and that's where he sees his calling right now.
After returning to his hotel, Parker plucks up the courage to ask MJ out for a late evening stroll before their rescheduled departure the next day. While Parker is digging deep to verbalise his true feelings for MJ, she interrupts him having deduced (sometime ago) that Parker is Spider-Man. Parker tries to deny this until she reveals a piece of debris she retrieved during the carnival battle which the pair quickly discover is a projector that presents a simulation of the Air Elemental, leading the two to deduce that Beck is a fraud. At this point and knowing that Beck cannot be trusted with the E.D.I.T.H. glasses, Parker comes clean over his alter-ego admitting to MJ that he is in fact Spider-Man. 
While battling Beck through various illusions Spider-Man is ultimately hit by a speeding train, and although Parker survives, badly battered and bruised, he falls unconscious in a train car. He comes round locked up in a jail cell in the Netherlands. He breaks out easily enough and contacts Hogan who picks up Parker in a tulip field in a Stark Industries jet. Hogan flies Parker to London and during the journey Parker reveals how he was taken in by Beck and how he feels he betrayed the trust that Tony Stark had in him. Hogan tells Parker not to be so harsh on himself and that Stark was a heavily flawed human being too. On board the private jet, Hogan reveals a suit-manufacturing machine, which Parker uses to synthesise a new customised Spider-Man suit.
In London, Beck uses E.D.I.T.H. to manipulate his grandest and most destructive illusion yet, referring to it as an Avengers Event - a fusion of all four Elementals, using it as a mask to kill MJ and any others to whom she might have revealed his secret. Using a series of heavily fortified drones which he launches in unison from a satellite orbiting in space, he unleashes his illusion on Tower Bridge where MJ, Ned, Betty and the others students are riding on a bus. They narrowly escape but are pursued by a number of killer drones into the Tower of London where they hide out in the heavily guarded room housing the Crown Jewels. Meanwhile, Beck is in full control of the combined destructive force of several hundred killer drones creating his grand illusion all at his command.
Parker is able to break through the illusion, and in a face-off with Beck involving further illusions defeats Beck, who dies from misfired drone gunshot wounds. Parker puts on the reacquired E.D.I.T.H. glasses, and orders for the remaining drones to be immobilised, so saving MJ, Ned, Betty and Hogan from near certain death. With the death of Beck, one of his associates who controls the drones and projector effects from a computer located away at a safe distance, is seen downloading the files to a USB memory stick, closing his laptop and hurriedly exiting stage left. 
Parker returns to New York City and his relationship with MJ blossoms. In a mid-credits scene, reporter J. Jonah Jameson (J.K. Simmons) of The Daily Bugle appears on a giant outdoor television screen in a breaking news bulletin blaming Spider-Man for the Elementals' attacks and broadcasting doctored footage of the incident filmed and recorded by Beck, in which he incriminates Spider-Man for his death and reveals his true secret identity as Peter Parker. 
I enjoyed 'Spider-Man : Far From Home' and this is indeed a fitting end to Phase Three of the MCU with Peter Parker (and the world) still lamenting the loss of his close friend Tony Stark; his torn loyalties between his duties as a Superhero and new recruit to the Avengers ensemble and his fellow classmates; the realisation that with great power comes great responsibility; and ultimately his preparedness to step up to the plate. The film has a country hopping teenage road trip feel about it interlaced with all the touchstones of a Superhero movie including the emotion, the comedy and the larger than life action, all cemented together by a strong cast that sees Tom Holland now well and truly settled into the role and Jake Gyllenhaal relishing playing the good guy on the surface but turned bad, real bad, underneath, with still some surprises in store even after his death, just like Tony Stark. A worthy sequel to 'Homecoming', the first instalment in a post 'Endgame' world and a satisfactory conclusion to Phase Three. Rest assured that Spider-Man will return in a third instalment and some point in Phase Four of the new MCU. Catch it on the big screen while you can.
* William Dale Wittliff was born on 21st January 1940 and died on 9th June 2019, aged 79. He was an American Screenwriter, Producer, one time Director, Author and Photographer with fifteen writing credits to his name, and eleven as Producer. His film writing credits included 'The Black Stallion', 'Raggedy Man', 'Barbarosa', 'Country', 'Red Headed Stranger' (which he also Directed), 'The Cowboy Way', 'Legends of the Fall', 'The Perfect Storm' and most recently 2013's 'A Night in Old Mexico'. During his career he was honoured with four award wins, three further nominations, in 1996 he was the recipient of the Austin Film Festival's Distinguished Screenwriter Award, and in 2001, Wittliff was inducted into the Texas Film Hall of Fame.
* Sylvia Miles - born 9th September 1924 and died on 12th June 2019, aged 94. She was an American Actress who began her stage career back in 1947 and her film and television career in 1954. Miles had 47 acting credits to her name including the likes of 'Murder, Inc' in 1960 - her big screen debut, followed up by 'Midnight Cowboy', 'The Last Movie', 'Farewell, My Lovely', '92 in the Shade', 'The Sentinel', 'Evil Under the Sun', 'Critical Condition', 'Wall Street' and its sequel 'Wall Street : Money Never Sleeps', 'Crossing Delancey', 'She-Devil', 'Go Go Tales', and 'Japanese Borscht' which was filming at the time of her death. She was the recipient of two award wins and two other nominations, both Academy Awards for her supporting roles in 'Midnight Cowboy' and 'Farewell, My Lovely'.
* Franco Zeffirelli - born Gian Franco Corsi Zeffirelli on 12th February 1923 and died 15th June 2019, aged 96. He was an Italian Director, Writer and Production Designer of film, television and opera with 25 film and TV Directing credits to his name, fifteen as Writer, and twenty as Production Designer, in addition to his numerous credits for theatrical productions. His 1967 Directorial debut with 'The Taming of the Shrew' starring the pairing of Elizabeth Taylor and Richard Burton remains to this day the best known adaptation of the Shakespeare play. The following year in 1968 he adapted another Shakespeare play 'Romeo & Juliet' for the big screen, which earned him his first Academy Award nomination, and which still holds up today. He followed this up with two religious offerings - 'Brother Sun, Sister Moon' about the life of St. Francis of Assisi in 1972, and then in 1977 the television mini-series 'Jesus of Nazareth' with Robert Powell in the lead role and an all star cast. He followed this up with the mainstream 'The Champ' with Jon Voight and Faye Dunaway and after that 'Endless Love' with Brooke Shields and Martin Hewitt. His next and final Academy Award nod came in 1983 with his big screen adaptation of the classic opera 'La Traviata' with Placido Domingo and Teresa Stratas. Next came another operatic adaptation with 'Otello' in 1986 before turning attention back to Shakespeare with 'Hamlet' starring Mel Gibson in the title role with Glenn Close, Helena Bonham Carter, Stephen Dillane, Alan Bates and Ian Holm. His last three big screen productions came with 'Jane Eyre' in 1996, 'Tea with Mussolini' in 1999 and 'Callas Forever' in 2002. All up Zeffirelli had nineteen award wins and another fourteen nominations to his name including two Academy Award nods, one Golden Globe nomination, two Primetime Emmy wins, one BAFTA win and another four BAFTA nods. He also served as a Senator from 1994 till 2001 for the Italian centre-right Forza Italia party, and in 2004 he received an honorary British knighthood.
* Bill Colllins was born William Roderick Collins on 4th December 1934 and died on 20th June 2019 aged 84. He was an Australian film critic and film historian, radio and television presenter, journalist, author and lecturer best known for presenting Hollywood films on television in Australia. He specialised in the Classical Hollywood cinema and was well known for his association with televisions Network 10, presenting 'Bill Collins' Golden Years of Hollywood' for fifteen years, and later with Foxtel, presenting movies on the cable channel FOX Classics from 1995 to 2018. He was widely recognised in Australia for his passionate enthusiasm for films, and his profile allowed him to meet and become acquainted with a range of film makers from the 'Golden Age of Hollywood'. As well as his TV work, he lectured at the University of Sydney on film and allied topics, and in 1987, he published a book of film reviews and essays, 'Bill Collins Presents "The Golden Years of Hollywood"'. In 1987, Collins was awarded the Medal of the Order of Australia (OAM) for services to film and television.
* Bryan Marshall - born 19th May 1938 and died 25th June 2019, aged 81. He was an English Actor whose career launched in the mid-'60's with uncredited roles in films 'Rasputin the Mad Monk' and 'Alfie' before his first credited big screen role in 1966 'The Witches'. His subsequent feature film outings included 'Quatermass and the Pit', 'The Tamarind Seed', 'The Spy Who Loved Me', 'The Long Good Friday', 'BMX Bandits', 'The Man from Snowy River II', 'The Punisher', 'Country Life' and 'Selkie'. His small screen credits over the years are numerous but include 'The Forsyte Saga', 'Vanity Fair', 'Z Cars', 'The Saint', 'Warship', 'Rooms', 'Out', 'Prisoner', 'Neighbours', 'Embassy', 'Water Rats', 'Home and Away' and 'All Saints'. In 1983 Marshall emigrated to Australia where he continued to work extensively in Australian film and TV productions, splitting his time between Australia and his native England. In total he had 126 Acting credits to his name.
* Max Wright - born George Edward Maxwell Wright on 2nd August 1943, died 26th June 2019, aged 75. He was an American Actor of film, television and stage, perhaps best known for his portrayal of Willie Tanner on the hit sitcom 'ALF' which ran for 102 episodes between 1986 and 1990. His big screen credits included 'All That Jazz', 'Reds', 'The Sting II', ''Soul Man', 'The Shadow', 'Grumpier Old Men', 'A Midsummer Night's Dream' and 'Snow Falling on Cedars'. His television roles over the years took in the likes of 'Hart to Hart', 'WKRP in Cincinnati', 'Taxi', 'Cheers', 'Murder, She Wrote', 'Dudley', 'Friends', 'Mad About You', and on 49 episodes of 'The Norm Show'. All up Wright had 66 acting credits to his name.
'SPIDER-MAN : FAR FROM HOME' (Rated M) - here this twenty third film in the Marvel Cinematic Universe is a direct sequel to 2017's 'Spider-Man : Homecoming' and follows on shortly after the events of 'Avengers : Endgame'. Directed once again by Jon Watts this film had a budget of US$160M, compared to 'Homecoming' which had a budget of US$175M and grossed worldwide US$880M, and is released in the US this week too, one day after its Australian release earlier this week on Monday 1st July.
'MYSTIFY : MICHAEL HUTCHENCE' (Rated M) - is a biographical documentary charting the life and times of INXS frontman and lyricist and occasional actor Michael Hutchence. Here Australian Director, Screenwriter and Co-Producer Richard Lowenstein, who incidentally, Directed many of both INXS and Michael's music videos and the 1986 feature film, 'Dogs in Space', in which Michael played the lead, recounts the musicians life which ended so tragically in Sydney on 22nd November 1997. A complex and shy man who spent the majority of his life under the public gaze, rarely revealing his true nature to anyone except his very close friends and family. Combining rarely seen archival footage and insights from Hutchence himself, his friends, family, lovers and colleagues portray his life from his fractured family background to the pinnacle of rock stardom and into the depths of despair following a freak accident in Copenhagen in 1992 which resulted in almost a complete loss of the sense of smell and significant loss of taste, seriously impacting his ability to deal with his unravelling personal and professional life. A must see for anyone with the remotest interest in this enigmatic Australian musician whose twenty year career with INXS brought him worldwide stardom and record sales in excess of sixty million.
'AN UNEXPECTED LOVE' (Rated M) - this Argentinian foreign language film took the local Box Office by storm when it was released in its native country back in August 2018. Written, Produced and Directed by Juan Vera the film here centres around Ana (Mercedes Moran) and her husband Marco (Ricardo Darin), who arrive at the airport to farewell their son Luciano, who is leaving his Argentinian homeland to study in Spain. They are satisfied that they have both done well as parents. However, his departure leaves a gaping hole in their everyday lives, and after more than twenty years of marriage, both reluctantly come to admit that their feelings for each other have moved somewhat. So as if it were one last project together, Ana and Marco decide to ‘consciously uncouple’, and begin to explore the surprising and sometimes wonderful world of the newly-single, with hilarious and unexpected consequences.
'SPIDER-MAN : HOMECOMING' which I saw last week has been much hyped, was eagerly anticipated and is the second reboot of the 'Spider-Man' franchise, the sixteenth film in the Marvel Cinematic Universe, and the first Spider-Man film to cross-over into the world of 'The Avengers'. This reboot comes after three successful films that started the live action series of the current era with 'Spider-Man' in 2002, 'Spider-Man 2' in 2004 and 'Spider-Man 3' in 2007 all Directed by Sam Raimi and starring Tobey Maguire. Those first three films cost a combined US$598M to Produce and raked in a collective US$2,50B at the worldwide Box Office. The first reboot came in 2012 with 'The Amazing Spider-Man' and was followed up in 2014 by 'The Amazing Spider-Man 2' both Directed by Marc Webb and starring this time Andrew Garfield as the young web slinger. These films costs US$480M to bring to the big screen, and collected a total US$1,47B between the two instalments. And so now in 2017 we have this offering, but of course we caught a glimpse of Spidey things to come in last years hugely successful 'Captain America : Civil War', but here that same Actor, Tom Holland, gets his own standalone feature as the young college going crime fighter under the tutelage of one Tony Stark. This film cost US$175M to bring to the big screen, this time around is Directed by Jon Watts and the film has already grossed US$471M. The film has received positive critical acclaim, with a sequel already announced for release in July 2019 with Jon Watts slated to return as Director. In the meantime Tom Holland will reprise his role as Spider-Man in the upcoming 'Avengers : Infinity Wars' due for release in May 2018 and its follow-up in May 2019.
The film kicks off shortly after the Battle of New York back eight years ago and as seen at the end of the first 'Avengers' instalment. Adrian Toomes (Michael Keaton) is a salvage contractor engaged by the city to clean up all the debris and wreckage in the aftermath of that attack. Then one day out of the blue appears Anne Marie Hoag (Tyne Daly) who heads up Tony Stark's US Department Of Damage Control (D.O.D.C.), and takes over the clean up operation and dismisses Toomes and his workforce off the job. Angered and enraged by his ousting off such a lucrative contract for which he has hired men, purchased equipment and bet his livelihood on the work, he secretly tells his men to hold onto whatever Chitauri technology they have scavenged in order that he can create new advanced weaponry from it, and sell it to the highest bidder.
Fast forward eight years to the present day, and several months following the events of 'Captain America : Civil War' a young Peter Parker, aka 'Spider-Man' (Tom Holland) is thrilled and motivated by his experiences with The Avengers. He carries on with his studies at Midtown School of Science and Technology, but Tony Stark, aka 'Iron Man' (Robert Downey Jnr.) advises him that he is not yet ready to become a fully fledged Avenger and he should concentrate on getting a good education first. Parker is so enthused by his recent Avengers experiences that he quits the school's Academic Decathlon Team which is about to enter the national finals to be held in Washington. One night while out fighting local crime in his neighbourhood, he comes across a bunch of rag tag criminal types robbing an ATM using the advanced gadgetry and weapons supplied by Toomes. He successfully thwarts them single handedly but not without doing some serious damage to his local corner deli and the bank being robbed.
He returns home to the apartment that he shares with his Aunt May (Marisa Tomei), secretly entering through the window climbing along the ceiling and dropping down by his bedside, only to come face to face with his best buddy Ned (Jacob Batalon), and so revealing his true identity. Peter makes Ned swear never to reveal his true identity to anyone under any circumstances, to which Ned reluctantly agrees.
Continuing to fight local crime, with his new Spider-Man suit fashioned by Stark Industries with all the inbuilt Superhero gadgetry you could ever wish for, one night he comes across two of Toomes heavies selling weapons to a local criminal. Spider-Man intervenes and the heavies manage to evade him through the streets of the suburbs under cover of darkness and using their advanced weapons against the young web slinging crime fighter. Tony Stark is watching Spider-Man's activities from afar by way of the suit and its inbuilt tracking and monitoring devices, and ultimately warns Peter about getting in over his head and getting involved with dangerous criminal types.
Having retrieved some of the weapons left behind during the earlier chase with Toomes heavies, Ned and Peter remove the power core, but little do they know that this is being monitored by Toomes who is seeking to get it back. Later Ned and the Academic Decathlon Team leave on a school bus bound for the national finals in Washington. Ned has the power core in his possession. Peter takes it upon himself to rejoin the Team, and at an overnight hotel stop over he and Ned disable the tracking devise built into his Spider-Man suit that is being closely monitored by Happy Hogan (Jon Favreau), and also unlock all of the advanced special features built into the suit. Armed with his new all singing all dancing hi-tech suit Spider-Man intercepts a D.O.D.C truck loaded with advanced weapons, but is over powered by Toomes who has his own special hi-tech mechanical suit known as 'The Vulture' forged from Chitauri technology. As a result Spider-Man becomes trapped inside the truck and misses the finals.
With the Academic Decathlon over and the Team having won the national tournament, they go on a sightseeing tour of Washington, taking in the near 170meter tall obelisk that is the Washington Monument. Peter comes to realise that the power core located in Ned's back pack is an unstable Chitauri explosive device. Having escaped the confines of the truck, Spider-Man races to locate his group of school mates, who by now are rapidly ascending the lift inside the Washington Monument. Spider-Man scales the outside of the obelisk, by now chased down by armed Police in a helicopter, and gains entry through a window just as the power core explodes trapping his class mates in a disabled lift carriage, leaving it hanging precariously from a great height. Spider-Man manages to evade the Police and rescue his school mates too, including Liz (Laura Harrier) - Peter's would-be girlfriend.
After all that fracas and the safe delivery of his school mates, Parker returns to New York City and is intent on stopping Toomes. He learns of Toomes whereabouts by questioning a local small time criminal who had previously sought to buy weapons from Toomes. On the Staten Island Ferry Spider-Man confronts a new buyer of Toomes weaponry and dispenses with him and his henchmen just as The Vulture arrives on the scene to dispense with the pesky Spider-Man. It doesn't go so well for either party, as a malfunctioning weapon rips the Ferry in half lengthways, causing Spider-Man to come rapidly to the rescue using all his web slinging might to hold the stricken ship together. Just in time Iron Man arrives to help save the day and repair the damage so saving all souls on board. After this latest mis-adventure Iron Man rips Spider-Man a new one for being so potentially reckless with human lives, and promptly takes back his suit.
Parker eventually and reluctantly settles back into life at school, and for the up coming Homecoming Dance, asks Liz is she will be his date. She accepts, and on the night of the dance, Parker duly rocks up to Liz's house to collect his date. The door is answered by none other than Adrian Toomes . . . Liz's father! Their initial meeting is stilted to say the least, with Parker recognising Toomes/The Vulture immediately, but not the other way around. Toomes offers to drive the couple to the dance venue as he is going away on business for a few days and it's not much of a detour. During the car journey Toomes deduces who Peter Parker's alter ego is, and threatens dire consequences if he interferes with his plans. During the dance, Parker realises that Toomes is planning to hijack a D.O.D.C. plane load of secret weapons being transported from the wrecked Avengers Tower to their new headquarters.
Having to wear his home made ill fitting nondescript Spider-Man outfit, Parker excuses himself from the party and makes off for Toomes hideaway. There Toomes overpowers Spider-Man leaving him for dead buried neck deep in concrete rubble. Spider-Man musters all his strength to break free from the mountain of cement, concrete and twisted metal that lies on top of him, and makes off for the now airborne transport plane. The Vulture and Spider-Man go head to head and toe to toe high above New York City, with Spider-Man eventually bringing the plane down in a crash landing over the Coney Island Amusement Park. The two continue to fight it out on a beach close by amongst the burning plane wreckage. Spider-Man saves the life of Toomes from his own unstable equipment, leaving Toomes wrapped up in webbing awaiting for the Police to arrive, together with the planes valuable cargo.
After her father's arrest and the family's reputation tarnished forever, Liz moves away with her Mum. Parker is offered to join The Avengers as a fully fledged paid up card carrying member of the elite team of bona fide Superheroes, but after all due consideration he politely declines. Tony Stark is understanding and they part company on good terms. When Parker gets back to his apartment, there waiting on his bed in a brown paper bag is his Avengers created Spider-Man suit - with a return note from Tony Stark.
'Spider-Man : Homecoming' is a worthy reboot of the reboot of the franchise that still manages to feel fresh, new and approachable, and perhaps it is because Spidey is here earning his stripes with The Avengers that adds another dimension that the previous five films did not. Here Peter Parker has to prove himself to his mentor Tony Stark and demonstrate his worthiness to stand alongside Iron Man et al, as well as prove to himself that he can stand up and be counted with the best of them, as well as see out his all important education, and stand up for his family and friends, all the while aiming to bring down an opportunistic bad guy that has a heart after all. This is definitely a return to form for the Spider-Man franchise, and a solid entry into the MCU dovetailing nicely into future 'Avengers' instalments and a future standalone sequel. Tom Holland has reportedly signed up for six Spider-Man appearances including the cross-over instalments and if he keeps his character as grounded, relatable and easy-going as he has now set out, then a good time will be had by all.
