Madame Web

Quelle drôle de publicité pour Pepsi c'était... Sony continue de produire des absurdités de bande dessinée de troisième catégorie qui semblent ignorer tout ce que les cinéastes de blockbusters ont appris au cours des 20 dernières années, préférant plutôt suivre les traces de films tels que Catwoman de 2004. Certaines décisions créatives, que ce soit en termes de caméra, de son ou de montage, sont tout simplement incompréhensibles (sans parler des effets CGI désolants), mais le scénario et la manière de raconter l'histoire, alors là, mes amis… Pour une raison inconnue, tous les flashbacks dans le film se répètent systématiquement deux fois à l'identique, tout ce qui est clairement expliqué visuellement devant ensuite être déclamé à haute voix par un personnage, au cas où. Systématiquement ! Il faut croire que Sony considère ses spectateurs comme des crétins finis. Et même ainsi, les choses n'ont pas plus de sens. Morbius, au moins, était plus marrant. (15/02/2024)

As I did a couple of years ago with Cats, I decided to go to the cinema to see Madam Web despite the very poor reviews and knowing that it might be a waste of money. Madame Web stumbles on multiple levels, like the vastly untapped potential that lay in the premise with its vision of the future, the lacklustre villain, to the off-kilter decisive confrontation with a downright stupid ending being the "bitter cherry on top". But the rating here still strikes me as quite severe, despite the glaring flaws, the film deserves two stars (but not a millimeter of cobwebs more). (02/03/2024)

Madame Web is like those porn parodies of superhero movies, but someone cut all the sex out of it, leaving only crappy visual effects, terrible actors and ridiculous dialogue. (15/02/2024)

I like films to reflect the time in which they are set by the way they are made. For example, Madam Web is set in 2003, which is also the year of the infamous Daredevil, which was very similarly bad, but better in that it at least had a coherent plot and not many people remember it anymore. Madame Web, on the other hand, is a fresh comic book flick. It makes no sense, it's boring, at best bizarre, at best unintentionally funny, but that's up to the audience's benevolence. I was initially entertained harmlessly, the film promising me in the first half hour or so that it would focus on Cassandra as well as the Parker family, that it would tell us something about Spider-Man's parents, uncle and aunt that we didn't know or hadn't seen, and that Madame Web would play some significant role in their fates. But alas. I'm not sure why, but the writers decided to flick the proverbial switch to another, ultimately literally dead-end track full of clichés and dullness. (28/02/2024)