Madame Web: A Review

There are few things as painful as the experience of watching a film that was made by people who don't care in a cheap attempt to draw some unwanted parallels with one of the most famous superheroes around today.

The film is so bad it's actually laughable. But not in the iconic trash that was Sony's previous endeavour, Morbius. It's so bad that even the quality of the filmmaking can be brought into question.

Hollywood is known for fumbling their films more than once but what is normally standard, is the quality of their filmmaking on a technical level. The production value is through the roof, the cast is full of recognisable faces and the studio puts a lot of money into the marketing of it all despite its shit story and the overall trashy nature of the film.

That somehow seems to have not been the case entirely for Madame Web. The editing in particular is atrocious and has absolutely no sense of where it wants to drive the story. A basic filmmaking principle. The script if you can even call it that, was a mess and it was obvious that the film itself had been rewritten after the shooting period was over. This obviously contributes negatively to the film on every single level.

The saddest aspect of this film was the performance of Tahar Rahim as Ezekiel Sims. He's probably the best actor in this whole film and his performance in The Prophet (2009) is nothing short of sensational. So when I see him in a crappy-ADR performance that looks like it was made by people who just couldn't give the slightest shit about how the film would turn out, it's sad, to say the least.

Dakota Johnson was a lifeless husk of an actress in this film it was actually hard to believe she had any charisma ever. Her performance was wooden, stale and lifeless to say the least. She acted like a person who just couldn't care less and was just happy to collect a paycheck and the end of it all.

Comic book films like these should never be allowed to see the light of day.

My Review: 2/10