MCU: All 11 Marvel Phase 3 movies ranked from worst to best
9. Spider-Man: Far From Home
Spider-Man: Far From Home was the last movie to be a part of the MCU’s Phase 3, and that means it had the difficult task to deal with the consequences of Avengers: Endgame. Prior to its release, people wondered how chaotic would it be for half of the world to be brought back to life in an instant. Furthermore, there was also a debate as to how would the wall-crawler react to missing 5 years of his life. After all, the blink was sure to affect his personal relationships and the way he sees the world, right? So how did the movie deal with these serious and mature topics? With a 2-minute news montage and a lot of nonsensical jokes, of course.
Spider-Man: Far From Home did a terrible job of dealing with the events of Avengers: Endgame. Not only that but it also failed at convincing everyone that Mysterio wasn’t going to be the main villain. Nobody walked into the movie theater expecting Mysterio to be a true hero and then be left speechless once it was revealed he was a bad guy all along. And even with all of these problems, perhaps the movie’s greatest fault is how it failed to flesh out the Spider-Man character.
Spider-Man: Far From Home‘s plot revolves around Peter Parker wanting to take a break from being a superhero. He just wants time to be with the girl he likes, to hang with his school friends, and to deal with personal problems that are constantly haunting him. And if any of this sounds familiar, it’s because a similar tale was portrayed in Sam Raimi’s Spider-Man 2. In it, Peter also wanted a break from being Spider-Man in order to save his relationship with M.J. and to fix his student life, among other things. The main difference between these two movies, however, is that Spider-Man 2 was way better at handling this type of story.
Furthermore, Spider-Man: Far From Home spent a lot of time trying to establish the web-slinger as a character that can stand on his own without the help of Tony Stark. Because of this, it wasn’t until the third act that the movie was finally able to deliver on this promise. So if you wanted a proper Spider-Man adventure where Iron Man wasn’t involved most of the time, you had to look somewhere else. All of this makes Spider-Man: Far From Home a weak entry in Phase 3 of the MCU, even when it had great action sequences and an amazing portrayal of Mysterio.