![]() ![]() This sets Toomes on the path to becoming “The Vulture” and crossing paths with a high-school-aged Peter Parker. With his men out work in the poor economic climate created by the alien attack on New York City, Toomes turns to the lucrative business of developing weapons for street-level criminals using alien technology scavenged during the clean-up. A group of contractors led by Michael Keaton’s Adrian Toomes are working as the clean-up crew for the city, until they are replaced by a bigger outfit financed by Stark Industries. Homecoming opens in the immediate aftermath of the devastation wrought in the climax of the first Avengers film. Finally-departing from the morass of recent superhero-ensemble films-we get to follow a single hero on a journey, with something to learn from the events of the story. Another element of its success is a very human and sympathetic villain played by Michael Keaton. As with this year’s Logan, the key to Homecoming’s success is, I think, a scaled storyline that emphasizes character, as well as a third act absent of any civilization-upending CGI apocalypses. I was pleasantly surprised by just how deftly Homecoming sidestepped many of the pitfalls of recent superhero flicks. But a promising tease in that film didn’t assuage my fears that the character’s full debut in Homecoming would simply be another humorous but ultimately kind of bland Marvel movie. ![]() ![]() Holland’s new Spider-Man was briefly unveiled last year in Captain America: Civil War. Homecoming sets up a surprisingly compelling new era for the hero, one that I hope can be maintained by both companies. Both companies share this Spider-Man (played by Tom Holland) and each has plans to use the character in projects independent of the other. The film is a bipartisan effort between Sony, film-rights holder to the classic character, and Disney, grand master of the MCU. With three Tobey Maguire and two Andrew Garfield movies all in recent memory, Spider-Man: Homecoming marks a third iteration for the character and matriculates the hero into the larger Marvel Cinematic Universe (MCU). No films demonstrate the quagmire of the Hollywood reboot culture better than the Spider-Man movies. ![]()
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