SPIDER-MAN: FAR FROM HOME

'''SPIDER-MAN: FAR FROM HOME. Jon Watts, dir.''' Chris McKenna, story. Erik Sommers, script. Based on the Marvel comic book by Stan Lee and Steve Ditko. Claude Paré, production design. USA: Columbia Pictures (presents), Marvel Studios (in association with) Pascal Pictures, Stereo D (production) / Columbia Pictures and Sony Pictures Releasing (US, Canada, UK theatrical distribution), 2019. See IMDb for details of distribution.

The Mise-en-scène includes a satisfying number of interesting gadgets, but see for moderate-size drones capable of holographic projection that can put people unknowingly into a kind of virtual reality (VR) and can attack in swarms, for which on the latter cf. and contrast Bruce Sterling's story "Swarm," Stanislaw Lem's The Invincible and "The Upside-Down Evolution"; and the films BIG HERO 6 (2014), and THE MATRIX REVOLUTIONS.

RDE, Initial Compiler, 9Jul19