Spider-Man: Homecoming Review - 9 Ups & 3 Downs

3. The Action

It's a shame that it was all shown in the trailers needlessly, but there's still a lot to enjoy about the action scenes in Homecoming. Even with a lighter tone and the fact that this is very much a teen comic book movie, the combat sequences are surprisingly hard-hitting (mostly thanks to the technological augmentations offered by The Tinkerer's tech).

There are some set-pieces in there that will imprint on the memory in a way that makes their spoiling in the trailers all the more baffling: the ferry sequence for instance and the plane fight between Spidey and Vulture.

Sony are lucky that their over-zealous, suffocating marketing campaign wasn't enough to rob the joy out of seeing Spidey swinging around New York, and those who consciously avoided the trailers will have experienced it all with the wide-eyed happiness that we all should have.

Perhaps because he's "just a kid" too, a lot of the action lacks finesse - he's just a fledgling after all - and the threat to him feels more authentic. You might know that he'll survive, but he goes through the ringer on the way there, particularly in the final act, and that's a real art.