Nearly 30 years after he was supposed to play Superman in a Tim Burton-directed feature about the Man of Steel (and three years after he cameoed as the character in The Flash), Nicolas Cage finally gets his long-overdue extended superhero spotlight in Amazon’s Spider-Noir.
The resulting series, which doubles as Cage’s most substantial television work to date, is a disappointment. Or, more specifically, an inconsistent disappointment, because over its eight-episode first season — the door is left open for more adventures, but it lacks a cliffhanger to force the issue — one can easily imagine the entertaining 100-minute movie yearning to be chiseled out.
Spider-Noir
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