PRAISE: I cant lie and say I didn't have some fun watching SONY turn one of Spider-Mans legendary adversaries into a Tarzan/Vigilante/Anti Hero.
As Sergei Kravinoff a.k.a. Kraven Aaron Taylor-Johnson displays some charisma at times and actually brings some good moments to the film when he's taking out bad guys and having fun with his powers. As the cold and uncaring crime lord Nikolai Kravinoff father to Kraven and Dimitri, Russell Crowe is fun to watch not only because of the roughness of the character but i just know Crowe is smiling because he knows he's collecting an easy paycheck. As Kravens half-brother, Dmitri ,Fred Hechinge also has some good moments. The ultra violence prominent in the multiple trailers for the movie is fortunately intact.
PROBLEMS: As Calypso Ezili, Ariana DeBose looks great in her black outfits but some of her line deliveries sounded like she was reading right off a cue card.I was shocked that J.C. Chandor the same director of the excellent movie A Most Violent Year also directed this. It's kind of funny that SONY threw so many Marvel villains into this movie as if they knew this movie was going to bomb so hey here's some villains we would have used later on.
The villains rank from slightly campy to absolutely obnoxious.To many moments are laughable head scratchers. The CGI only looks good in about 3 scenes, the rest of the time it looks awful as one of the prominent flaws are the techs trying to give animals expressions. The nods to anything associated with Spider-Man are extremely weak.
Scale of 1 to 10 a 4
