Madame Web (2024)

Plot of Madame Web: It is 1973 and explorer Constance Webb is in the Amazon jungle, and is pregnant She find a new breed of spider which apparently has healing capabilities but was shot by her bodyguard, Ezekiel Sims, who escapes with the spider. With the help of a local tribe who use a spider to bite her, Constance gives birth but dies. Thirty years later in New York, Cassandra, her daughter, is a paramedic who finds she can see the future, and can change it. Using the capability she finds that a spider guy, who we know is Ezekiel, is targeting three young women who he sees in the future as threats to his life.  Cassie is able to find them and, from then on, it is them against the spider guy who can see the future and who has a variety of super powers. The three girls have a tendency to go AWOL, despite Cassie’s efforts, and Ezekiel has employed a woman who tracks people using street cameras  who finds them. How will it all end?

Content: No sex or nudity, drinking, drugs, or smoking. Quite an extended scene of Cassie’s mother in the jungle introducing us to the tribe who are sort of spider people. This is extended when Cassie goes to the jungle herself to find out what happened. Some time doing paramedic things and interacting with her partner and her partner’s wife who is pregnant. Cassie has a number of fights with Ezekiel, helped by her capability to see the future. Very occasionally the three young women are seen in sort of spider costumes, allowing us to assume that Cassie will be their leader in their fights against crime in the future. It all comes to a conclusion which followers of the comic book stories will be able to anticipate.

A View: I have seldom come across a film which has been reviewed with so much venom, and really wondered why. I suppose that enthusiasts for superhero films, of which I am not one, were expecting something else. This is a bit of a story which ends up at the point where the whole superhero thing is supposed to start. So one assumes that the next film if it was to take place, would be the film that most fans were expecting. So despite the panning I thought Dakota Johnson did pretty well, but is it worth a view? I have seen a lot worse, so you could have it on for nothing while doing something else.

Fun Fact: Dakota Johnson said that doing the film was like ‘Fifty Shades’ except with more cloths on.