Madame Web
Madame Web
“Madame Web” is not, despite its unusually odd spot on calendars (February) or cumbrous trailer, a complete embarrassment.
It’s a superhero origin story with low demands whose centre is Dakota Johnson in a very charming performance. But the feature film which is the first for the veteran Ll Suddath J. Clarkson who has spent most of her career in television becomes visually messy in the end, readings which are rather explosive in their heat, and where most of the speaking is conducted by excessive explanatory dialogue.
There are moments, however, where the information is humorous, such as when Johnson’s Cassie Webb struggles with her widespreaded issues, with people asking her about endless strange things while her patience gets thinner and thinner at every repetition.
More often than not, however, the information dumps in the script attributed to Clarkson & Claire Parker and “Morbius” scribes Matt Sazama & Burk Sharpless are comically dry in the sense that they are tepid, which was not the writer’s intention.
Possibly that is unavoidable, though, in this case. Judith Webb introducing a fresh person in front of a massive crowd. Yet in these overstuffed times for comic book adaptations, “Madame Web” is thankfully fast in its rhythm which is a plus rather than the usual sombre taking of the end of the world type movies that we see or become weary of.
In a flashback to Peru, Amazonia in 1973, near a big Constance (Kerry Bishé) who is heavily pregnant is looking for the abdomen skin healer spider.
Subtract twenty years and the present she bears, Cassie, works as a paramedic in the City of New York (specifically queens, which happens to be Peter Parker’s choice of residence). However, while engaged in the EMS bridge rescue alongside her EMT partner Ben (Adams Scott), she ends up falling overboard into the river, causing her to activate the Spidey sense.
She discovers she has second sight: being capable of looking in the future, and she is flooded with terrifying images of what is to come, but alas, no one cares to take her seriously. (After all, her first name is Cassandra). At some point, she has a dramatic loss of control67 and is later horrified because she views someone get murdered and she has blood on her hands but cannot imagine a way to avert it.
We’ve seen this reliving of events with multiple chances to get it right time and again in for instance “Ground Hog Day”, final destination, happy death day, however, even if the premise does not appear to be something very original, in “Madame Web” we are presented with some interesting aspects to it.
The moment that Cassie stops trying to fight abilities she does not want to have — and understands that it’s her responsibility to prevent three teenage girls from being previously raped by three men inside a train in Grand Central Station — is straight up tense.
Full of riches and power as well as extremely class-obsessed, Ezekiel Sims (Tahar Rahim, “A Prophet,” “The Past”) is capable of some powers viz is able to see what the future will bring and knows that these three will kill him when they grow older. (His explanation of this nightmare vision to a woman he has just been sleeping with, was warmly requested at a press screening but went on to earn some funny jabs. )
Always traveling and unable to hang out at one place for long, Cassie has to play guardian to these rebellious teens — introvert Julia (Sydney Sweeney), nerdy Anya (Isabela Merced) and spoiled Mattie (Celeste O’Connor). Johnson is such a detached apathetic joker that one would want her character to spend the entire film interacting with these irritating youngsters, becoming more intolerant of their rudeness.
Peculiarly, She channels her inner superhero without getting over the top.Идея: Sweeney, Merced and O’Connor are mostly stuck in badly written supporting characters and one-degree of actors dares too such age in most of the cases schoolchildren, But these four along with Johnson, for the most part, have pretty good chemistry.
Astonishingly, Clarkson, who has played countless characters on television and mainly the Marvel spin off “Jessica Jones“, almost inescapably manages to make the action onscreen appealing with the swiftness of editing coupled with dynamic transitions fluid camera during movements shot. It’s like one car door is slamming shut and sometime later another car door somewhere is getting opened.
And there are those that show it with great sense of narrative imagination: as though Cassie herself is walking inside the flow, the one which emanates and glows her dark supernatural forces overloading the effects.
Yet, it is the large, brawling battle scenes, which drag “Madame Web” into the mire. Yes, they are this type of film but they are the most boring. Nevertheless, in this house, one does not need to be a seer to forecast the making of more in this series after this.
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- Genre: Action, Adventure, Sci-fic, Thriller
- Country: United States
- Director: S.J. Clarkson
- Cast: Dakota Johnson, Sydney Sweeney, Isabela Merced
