Madame Web 4K 2024 2160p WEB-DL

Spider-Man spin-off about the soothsayer Madame Webb.

The plot of the film centers on paramedic Cassandra Webb (Johnson), who discovers she has the ability to see the future. At some point, a mysterious maniac in a Spider-Man costume begins to appear in Cassandra's visions.

Madame Web 4K Review
Sony has done it again. Someone in the studio has expropriated a time machine from poor, nameless scientists, and time after time they bring their colleagues to brainstorm huge stacks of cards with the most awful, hackneyed and exhausted ideas from past decades. Screenwriters with a track record that instantly rots tomatoes, filigree cards filigree assembled from unsightly houses, collapsing at the box office at a glance. Critics spit bile, viewers just spit, studio accounting, shrugging their shoulders, neatly writes off the taxes, and the movie splits into memes and is erased from memory somewhere in the middle of the credits. Sonu, rubbing his forehead, sets the rake back to square one.

"Madame Spider-Man" is the fourth film in Sony's Spider-Man Universe media franchise. Universe with no apparent connection between characters and events and, ironically, without Spider-Man himself. The latter fact, by the way, allows the creators of "Madame Web" to ignore the superhero phenomenon altogether, which again refers viewers back to the early years of comic book movies, when no multiverse and numerous world-saving teams yet existed.

Cassandra Webb (Dakota Johnson) wheels around Manhattan in an ambulance with smiling partner Ben Parker (Adam Scott). Saving the life of a traffic accident victim, the girl falls into the water and, while clinical death gets closer to the brain cells, gains the gift of clairvoyance. Once upon a time, Cassandra's mother (Kerry Bishé) died in the jungles of Peru during childbirth delivered by members of a mythical tribe. Before her death, the spider researcher was stung by an incredibly rare spider at the behest of the wise autochthons. And 30 years later in Ms. Webb awakened supernatural forces, thanks to which she can look into the future. At first the heroine this fact, of course, shocked, but after saving a pigeon from a deadly transom Cassandra begins to realize her own power.

In parallel, three schoolgirls (Sydney Sweeney, Celeste O'Connor and Isabela Merced) are being hunted by neurotic billionaire Ezekiel Sims (Tahar Rahim), who is killed in his dreams time after time by a trio of female spiders with the girls' faces. Sims, too, has spider powers (minus the web-throwing) and, donning a costume reminiscent of Peter Parker's outfit, sets out to eradicate the problem in the style of "Un Certain Regard" - that is, kill the schoolgirls before they become a threat. Cassandra crosses paths with the three schoolgirls for no apparent reason (the filmmakers directly ask the audience the question "Could it be fate?") and uses her freshly acquired powers to save the teens. Such a plot sounds as lousy as it looks.

Director's chair for the reason of either incompetent selection, or spiteful attitude to the project entrusted to S.J. Clarkson - a British woman, with superheroics familiar from two episodes of the series at the end of the noughties "Heroes" and rather passable series of "Jessica Jones". "Madame Web" is her second feature film, following 2010's "Toast." Nearly 25 years in the multi-part field is eye-catching. Dialogue eights, sloppy editing that permanently disrupts the geography of the scene, and a plot that seems chopped into episodes bring to mind the TV series "Arrow" and "The Flash." From the equation only removed christaradnaya prowess of crafts CW channel, leaving, however, indulgent approach to special effects - from a movie with a budget of 80 million expect less "soap".

However, sometimes the creators' down sleeves are compensated to some extent by the actors' musculature, perhaps "Madame Web" is just such a case? And again bye: of the entire cast of natural charisma periodically sparkles only Dakota Johnson. The rest of the face-makers as if waiting for the turn to say a line and go to the trailer for a well-deserved rest. There is no chemistry between the protagonists, the audience will not be able to get attached even to the main heroine, and the logic of the characters occasionally makes you laugh much more than the awkward jokes they make. The three female spiders - potential heroines of the future sequels - are devoid of individuality, even though they are scripted to be completely different girls at first glance.

The movie "Madame Web" could be a new "Morbius" (for nothing, that's why the script was written by the same Matt Sazama and Burke Sharpless) on the level of memes, but even here it manages to fail. S.J. Clarkson's picture isn't bad enough to rank alongside the other members of the weird "so bad it's good" family. "Madame Web" is a simple example of an unassuming movie produced and directed without gore, love or hope for the future, whose writers made decisions at every stage of production in a spit-and-polish manner. And it also has an unpleasantly deceitful trailer, the kind of trailer where they put an exploding helicopter to attract attention. Fans don't forgive that.