‘Madame Web’ Review: A Tangled Web Of Missed Opportunities And Studio Misfires
deadline.comIn a recent interview with EW, Madame Web star Dakota Johnson mentioned the experience of working on a film set working so much with blue and green screen saying, “I was like, ‘I don’t know if this is going to be good at all!” She said that because when you can’t see what’s happening, how do you know how it will turn out.
If only she could have seen what I saw while watching this chaotic mess of a movie where the failure lies solely on the studio.
Directed by S.J. Clarkson, and written by Clarkson, Matt Sazama, Burk Sharpless, and Claire Parker, the film stars Johnson, Sydney Sweeney, Isabela Merced, Celeste O’Connor, Tahar Rahim, Adam Scott, Emma Roberts, and Omar Epps.
In 1973, in the Peruvian Amazon, a pregnant Constance Webb (Kerry Bishé) and her protector, Ezekiel Sims (Rahim), search for a mythical Spider with healing powers, guarded by a tribe with spider-like abilities.
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