Spider-man: Homecoming

This review is coming up pretty late for a highly anticipated movie, therefore I will assume that everyone has seen it, and so I will include spoilers. (duh).

This movie takes place after the proceedings of Captain America: Civil War. Peter Parker is now in high school and kind of dissatisfied with his normal life after working alongside Tony Stark in Civil War. So, to compensate, and to show Mr. Stark that he is competent enough to be in the Avengers, he tries to catch criminals, petty thieves and such. On one such event though, he comes across an underground weapons dealer, who is more powerful and more trouble than he thought.

A thing that stood out to me was the relationship between Peter Parker and Tony Stark. Peter is an orphan, and after the death of Uncle Ben, he doesn't really have that patriarchal figure in his life. Until Tony Stark. Tony Stark is rich, brilliant, suave, brave, everything that Peter wants to be. He constantly tries to impress Mr Stark, mostly by taking on more than he can. But sometimes, he does feel that the affection is one-sided. Tony Stark is a very complex man. He projects aloofness, sometimes even disregard and irritation towards Peter. But he cares deeply for him. He is always present when Peter really needs him and patches up all his mistakes.

He taught Peter Parker the most important lesson in his life, “If you're nothing without that suit, then you shouldn't have it.”

The villain of this story is The Vulture. Adrain Toomes and his team, who were responsible for cleaning up the city after the Battle of New York, are thrown out of their jobs by the D.O.D.C (Department Of Damage Control). Enraged, he and his team keep the Chitauri Technology that they've found, and use it to create powerful weapons. He becomes rich from the sale of these weapons.

The Vulture is probably one of the most underrated villain written. If you look at him from his point of view, he is just a man who wants to protect and nurture his family at all, and any cost. He lost his job because of the Avengers, and he hates them because he thinks that they don't care about little people like him. So he decides to destroy them.

How the Vulture and Spider-man come to know each others’ identities, is something I will keep a secret. However, I can tell you that it is jaw dropping, and I watched the rest of the movie with my mouth open. I swear to god, it was like a sledge-hammer in the face, completely unexpected. The tension was so thick, we would need a diamond to cut it. The lack of background music made it even more awkward. That scene was the climax to which it was all building towards. I finally understood what “Homecoming” stood for.