I caught a matinee of this early today, and didn't like it. Homecoming was a better movie than this one, and as I recall I had problems with that movie too. The first Spidey vs Mysterio fight in the warehouse was an incredible sequence worth the price of admission, the sort of thing I expected and was pleased to see in a movie with Mysterio, and the final battle with the drones was well done if a step down. Gyllenhaal gives a great performance as Mysterio (and, Mysterio), and Holland performs well in scenes not involving Zendaya or the high school bunch.
The rest of the movie was either mediocre of just plain bad, and everything around the high school trip - from the romantic plot to the comedy to the acting - was cliche garbage. Fury and Hill, I still don't know what the hell they're doing in these movies without S.H.I.E.L.D. backing them up, and Jackson is just happy to be there it seems. Caught myself checking my watch several times before the final act (never a good sign), and the mid-credits scene had me rolling my eyes in a "for fuck's sake" kind of way, for both the shoe-horned appearance by Simmons and the callback cliffhanger diving off a cliff. I didn't stay for a post-credits.
Maybe I'll feel better about it later, but doubtful. It's one of the worst Spider-Man movies Sony has made.
