Jake Gyllenhaal, who nearly played the wallcrawler, brings nuance to the comic book character.
begins as the world is just beginning to pick up the pieces from what’s called “the Blip”, AKA the aftermath of when Thanos snapped half of humanity out of existence before the Avengers brought them back. But even though everyone has returned, that doesn’t mean the world has gotten back to normal. In the first scene, Nick Fury and Maria Hill go to Mexico to investigate a cyclone that apparently had a human-seeming face.
As crazy as that may sound, it’s true because the cyclone is one of the Elementals. Fury and Hill are surprised to discover a seemingly new hero fending off this alien bad guy, Quentin Beck , a denizen of an alternate Earth who’s traveled to ours to stop the Elementals from destroying the planet. The three of them eventually recruit Peter to assist, even though he’s trying desperately to enjoy a European vacation with his science class.
are careful to only include scenes with the character from the first half, he’s always been seen as a bad guy in the source material. There’s something almost metatextual about his nefarious plans, especially as they come right after Thanos’ downfall.
Gyllenhaal, who was once nearly Spider-Man himself back in the Tobey Maguire/Sam Raimi days, has a lot of fun with the part,we find out what Beck’s really up to. In the first half of the film, Beck seems like a surrogate father figure the same way Tony Stark had been.
Aside from wondering what the world will look like if everyone thinks that Spider-Man is a bad dude, and knowing his real name,largely steers clear of giving a lot of hints as to what’s to come in Phase Four of the MCU. The film largely feels like an epilogue for the last 11 years’ worth of storytelling, not even trying to come up with a villain quite as terrifying as Thanos.
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