 What's going on guys welcome back to the channel Critical Overlord here This will be a spoiler for review for Madame Webb Madame Webb is directed by SJ Clarkson who co-wrote the screenplay as well Along with Matt and Sazama Burke Sharpless and Claire Parker. Now. It is starring Dakota Johnson, Sydney Sweeney Celeste O'Connor Isabella Merced Tahar Rahim Mike Epps Emma Roberts and Adam Scott now this film is revolving around Madame Webb Cassandra Cassandra Webb if you will force to confront revelations about her fact about her past paramedic Cassandra Webb forges a relationship with three young women destined for powerful futures if they can all survive a deadly present now Madame Webb was immediately off my must-see list once the trailer dropped I went into this expecting trash simply due to how a lot of the story was doing what it saw fit rather than being an Actual adaptation on the Madame Webb character that I grew up with not that Madame Webb Of course is the first superhero film of recent memory to take liberties with the source material and be inaccurate to its source material But what got me interested in seeing this film once again was the assault It's enduring from other critics currently I even had a conversation with drum-dumb shout out to you about seeing this film after we got our invites and After seeing his tweet, I was glad to have skipped my screening So now that I've watched it I am happy to say that Madame Webb didn't make me angry or upset But that's mostly because I wasn't really interested in this film at all once the trailer dropped I was completely out. I was willing to give it a chance But once the trailer dropped after I saw that I stopped tweeting about it really if you notice that I didn't I haven't really talked about the film at all on my channel because I just lost interest and I don't typically cover superhero things anyway, but I love spider-man and Madame Webb just lost all my interest once that trailer dropped but This is definitely Another poor effort from Sony and it's spider-verse Cassandra Webb our titular character is a paramedic that unlocks her powers one day while responding to a call she longs for a relationship with her deceased mother and the newly unlocked powers will assist her in Trying to come to grips with a relationship. She can't have to the Or have in the way that she would of course long to have it since her mother is dead The other girls Julia Anya and Maddie are all bland and squandered characters for the most part Maddie is a bit of a problem child Anya's parents are behind on rent But there is a twist related to her father and then Julia lives with her dad and stepmother because her mom is in a Psych ward Madame Webb does nothing to really make these girls worth investing in each of them have parental problems And those are things that make them sympathetic in nature But you're kind of just tossing all of that stuff at us The screenplays failures to explore this in a compelling way makes Cassie's efforts to keep them safe uninteresting So like I mentioned, it's just throwing those details at us rather than seeing them and their struggles It's just told to us in a motel scene with a few sentences from each girl Oh, I my dad did this my mom did that and it's like, okay Well, I'm not experiencing any of it So I can't really feel all that bad for you outside of the fact that I'm thinking to myself damn That's tough how these characters talk can be tiresome as well because there's a lot of exposition dumping when it's not necessary Mostly related to our villain Ezekiel Ezekiel himself is an awful villain. His presence is never intimidating or cause for concern Which makes the girls fears laughable at best and sure I get it. Yes It is scary if a strange man is wanting to kill you for no apparent reason. That's all very horrifying thoughts However, the time we the viewer spend with Ezekiel does him no service to make him a believable threat that we should take seriously Or even get remotely behind on why the girls are scared of him because I'm not scared of him You've failed to make him intimidating in any capacity now however Aside from this Madam webs biggest sin is ironic since it's a superhero movie the lack of action is quite baffling if Cassie driving a taxi into a diner speeding through traffic and premonitions count for action Then madam web didn't understand the assignment because if that's what qualifies for action in your superhero movie That's just a f on all accords Hand to hand combat is few and far between a lot of the story is just Cassie wandering the streets like a stray cat There's irony in my word choice there, but I'll let you guys see the film first if madam web had a better structure It wouldn't be such a chore to sit through. That's the bottom line and god honest truth Johnson Sweeney merced and o'connor deliver subpar performances across the board every performance comes off like they Had something better to do o'connor injected some energy here and there Thanks to her delivery, which was stellar compared to the other ladies. There's almost no chemistry between them So the way their relationship progressed feels forced at best Emma roberts who has about six minutes or less of screen time was to stand out as mary parker her facial expressions And her line delivery was easily the best thing about the film when it comes to the performances S.J. Clarkson simply didn't put their best foot forward here as the director I don't understand why most of the lines are delivered in such a I couldn't care less fashion There's nothing really distinct about the performances Nothing really distinct about a lot of this movie or anything unique about what's on my screen The jokes never land and they feel out of place or just completely awkward Madam web's editing choices are its second biggest sin because the quick cuts and whip zooms become unbearable as the film progresses The film is just bad y'all. It's not so bad. It's Like it's not bad in a good way either. It's just this is so bad It sucks and i'm not ever going to watch it again Madam web's pros mostly stem from the subpar performances How unintentionally funny it can be the soundtrack and the brief appearances of the ladies costumes because those didn't look bad Despite those costumes getting like maybe three minutes of screen time at best I don't know what sony is doing with their spider verse But they keep dropping these duds. This is another dud and another stinker in 2024 I hope that I start seeing some very good movies because i'm on a streak of just watching trash I would give madam web a Four and a half out of 10 because i'm not going to say it's worse than jeepers creepers three despite my joke tweet that I put out Yesterday because they had similar rotten tomato scores at the time. 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