9. Spider-Man: Far From Home (2019)
Before you get out your torches and pitchforks, listen here: Tom Holland is a great Spider-Man, the MCU is an excellent franchise, and Spider-Man: Far From Home is not at all a bad movie. That said, it’s still our number eight, and for good reason. It’s just missing so much of what Spider-Man should be, and the end result suffers as a result.
With a story involving Peter Parker traveling across Europe with his classmates, Far From Home is one of the very few stories to take the hero further afield than his hometown of New York. In terms of the MCU as a whole, this makes sense, as Spider-Man had just helped the Avengers stop Thanos and then lost his mentor Tony Stark, so Spidey taking time to explore himself as a person works. Unfortunately, that means that Far From Home is inherently missing key elements of a great Spider-Man story, because there’s very little New York, and its story relies more on the general MCU narrative rather than Spider-Man’s own.
Honestly, Far From Home is guilty of a few quite subtle sins that really undermine it in vital ways. For starters, it’s incredibly formulaic, and it also sees the superhero do something incredibly dumb as a major plot point. Outside of that, it robs Spider-Man of his “friendly neighborhood” role, taking him far from the city that he belongs in without other heroes to bridge the gap. Far From Home may not be jumbled per se, but it certainly seems to suffer from something of an identity crisis that most Spider-Man movies simply don’t.