Official Trailer
Rating: 0/10 | Genre: Science Fiction, Action, Adventure
Starring: Tom Holland, Zendaya, Sadie Sink, Jacob Batalon, Jon Bernthal
Spider-Man: Brand New Day is a weird movie. Not weird in a fun way. Weird in a way that makes you sit there wondering what you just watched.
Here’s the thing that bothered me the most: the movie has no runtime listed. Zero minutes. And honestly, I’m not even sure that’s a mistake. The pacing is so all over the place that it genuinely felt like I was watching scenes that didn’t connect to each other. One minute Peter is stopping a bank robbery in Queens. The next he’s having some kind of breakdown in his apartment. Then there’s this whole subplot about a pattern of crimes that just kind of… appears without proper setup.
The Premise Is Actually Interesting
The core idea is solid. Peter erased himself from everyone’s memory after No Way Home, which we already knew from that movie. But Brand New Day takes that concept and asks: what does that actually do to a person? He’s been alone for four years. He’s got no friends, no family who knows him, no MJ or Ned or May. Just him and his Spider-Man duty.
That’s depressing. And the movie should be leaning into that depression. Instead it keeps cutting to action scenes that feel disconnected from everything else. It’s like watching two different movies spliced together badly.
Tom Holland Is Tired
And I mean that literally. Holland looks exhausted in this movie. His eyes are dead half the time. I think he’s actually trying to play a Peter who’s burnt out and isolated, which works. But the script doesn’t give him anything interesting to do with that character. He mostly just stands around looking sad or jumps into action sequences.
Zendaya has maybe fifteen minutes of screen time. I don’t know why they even bothered putting her name in the credits. She plays some kind of investigator looking into the crime pattern, but her storyline goes nowhere. Sadie Sink and Jacob Batalon are basically cameos. Jon Bernthal shows up as whoever the villain is supposed to be, but the movie never actually explains his motivation or what he wants.
The Physical Evolution Thing
There’s this subplot about Peter’s body changing in some weird way. Maybe he’s mutating? Maybe the Spider-Man powers are breaking down? The movie hints at it a few times but never commits to explaining it. There’s a scene where his hand starts glitching or something, and it’s genuinely unsettling. But then it just stops being a thing in the next scene.
This is where Brand New Day really falls apart. It sets up an interesting threat, something physical and scary happening to Peter, and then doesn’t follow through. It’s like the screenwriter forgot what they were writing halfway through.
So Should You Watch This?
Look, if you’re a Spider-Man completionist, you’ll watch it anyway. But I can’t recommend this to anyone else. It’s not fun. It’s not exciting. It’s just confusing and boring and occasionally frustrating. The movie had a chance to do something real with Peter Parker’s isolation and loneliness, and instead it just made a scattered superhero movie that doesn’t know what it wants to be.
What’s weird is that there’s clearly something here. The depression angle. The body horror setup. Tom Holland actually trying to do something different with the character. But it’s all buried under bad editing and a plot that doesn’t make sense.
Did anyone else actually finish this movie, or did you give up halfway through like I almost did?
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