Solan Rodriguez

Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse lacks direction, proper pacing, or an interesting villain. There are many points where the idea of individuality is brought up as a possible theme but is never followed through. In the end, Morales just learns how to be good enough to be Spider-Man. Too much happened in the movie in too short a time. There is a proper break at the beginning where we get to really feel for the characters, but after that, we're flung through the plot at a breakneck pace and end up hitting the end like Wile E. Coyote against a brick wall., feeling deflated and let down. There are definitely places where huge things happened and we still were sent reeling through the film. King Pin's tragic story provides many emotional opportunities for the story to go, but none are ever explored. He never gets closure or learns his lesson, and we're left feeling that he'd do the whole thing again if he could, which I'm sure is very much not what the writers intended considering what happens. His story leads one to recall The Great Gatsby, recounting a man unable to let go of the past, and yet, Fisk has no real end to his story.