The film gets off to an awkwardly acted and presented start in that jungle sequence and never recovers. Dakota Johnson feels wrong. The movie doesn't seem to have much point. Maybe it should've just focused on Madame Webb mentoring three spiderwomen - like, started with the girls and gone from there. Or maybe it should've embraced it's Christmas Carol theme hinted at when Johnson watches that film - a cranky old loner discovers humanity via acts of kindess. But Johnson is too warm, is given friends. The Parker family stuff feels shoe horned in. And it is hard to build to a rousing climax about a woman who winds up blind and in a wheelchair.
I didn't mind the time jumping and freaking out that Something Had Changed sequences. Some of it is slickly done.
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