SPOILERS AHEAD: I loved the movie, I’m not going to lie. It feels different, daring, and genuinely confident in its own identity. Jon Watts should be taking notes.
That said, I do feel that Hulk/Banner deserved a much larger role. The character had the potential to contribute a great deal to the story, but they never fully took advantage of him.
The Bad Bunny reference made me laugh, and honestly, it also made me happy. Whether you like him or not, he is a Latino artist and represents us. It even reminded me somewhat of the cultural energy and pride embodied by Miles Morales.
What didn’t I like? For starters: where the hell is J. Jonah Jameson?
The movie is packed with news broadcasts discussing Spider-Man and everything happening across New York. We saw Jameson at the end of *Spider-Man: No Way Home*, and here he simply vanished. Nothing. Not even a mention. Completely erased from the map.
The same applies to the references involving the inhibitor chip and Doctor Octopus. A single comment or joke delivered by the suit’s own artificial intelligence would have been enough to acknowledge that connection without interrupting the story.
And what about Daredevil? Exactly the same problem. I would have been satisfied with just a few frames of Matt Murdock sitting behind the bars of his cell, sensing that Spider-Man was nearby. It did not require a full scene or a gratuitous cameo. One carefully constructed image would have been enough to excite the audience and connect both worlds.
There is also a major problem during the final act.
Our friendly neighborhood Spider-Man risks his life to save Jean Grey from a shot fired by the Punisher, and Frank ultimately takes him to the hospital. Sometime later, we see Peter lying in a hospital bed while Frank explains that the doctors had to completely destroy the suit in order to save his life.
That means they necessarily saw his face and discovered his identity.
And that is where the plot hole appears: once they learned who he was, they should have discovered that Peter Parker practically does not exist in any recognizable public record as a consequence of what happened at the end of *No Way Home*. So what was the point of that entire storyline and everything Peter sacrificed?
The problem becomes even more obvious in the final scene, when Peter casually walks out through the hospital’s main entrance dressed as Peter Parker. If the doctors had to remove his suit and saw that he was Spider-Man, how is it possible that nobody recognizes him, questions him, detains him, or at the very least reacts to such an enormous revelation?
Anyway…
I did think that Ned unconsciously remembering Peter through their handshake at the end was a beautiful and emotionally intelligent detail. It subtly suggests that, even though his memory was altered, certain emotional connections remain buried somewhere inside him.
But it is time to move forward.
I want to see Harry Osborn. I want to see Gwen Stacy. I want to see Peter finally become a photographer and build a life of his own, rather than constantly depending on the legacy of the Avengers.
I hope *Spider-Man 5* has the courage to explore that stage of the character’s life with the maturity, drama, and cinematic ambition it deserves.
Peter Parker has already lost far too much. Now it is time to watch him grow, rebuild his life, and finally become the definitive version of Spider-Man.