She is MADAME WEB

Jeri Jacquin

Coming to 4K Ultra HD, Bluray and Digital from writer/director S.J. Clarkson and Sony Pictures Home Entertainment is the story of MADAME WEB.

Constance Webb (Kerry Bishe) is in the jungle of Peru in 1973 looking for a spider that has healing properties. Excited about finding one, Constance is attacked by researcher Ezekiel Sims (Tahar Rahim) and left for dead. Pregnant, she is found by the local indigenous tribe and they can not save her but manage to save her birthed daughter Cassandra.

Some years later, Cassandra (Dakota Johnson) is a paramedic in New York City. Driving her patients to the hospital is her goal and partner Ben Parker (Adam Scott) knows exactly what it’s like to work with her. During a call, Cassie lands in the water and it causes a near-death experience but something begins to happen to her. Call it déjà vu, she begins to see things that haven’t happened yet and into the future.

Three girls Julia (Sydney Sweeney), Anya (Isabela Merced), and Mattie (Celeste O’Connor) are about to meet Cassie under the strangest of circumstances. While aboard a subway, Cassie sees what is about to happen to the girls and makes it her mission to protect them. It is Ezekiel who is hunting these girls and wants them disposed of because of his own premonitions. Hiding the girls and asking them to wait until she returns, the girls decide they know better and once again Ezekiel discovers where they are.

Cassie has to rescue them a second time and takes them to Ben’s house. Realizing she must go to Peru to find out what happened to her mother, the girls agree to wait for her return. Once in Peru, Cassie learns of what happened to her mother and what it is she is experiencing. Thinking that her mother just didn’t care about her, it now becomes clear what the true circumstances were to the trip to Peru in the first place.

In the states, Ben’s sister-in-law Mary (Emma Roberts) is going into labor and Cassie can feel what is about to happen. Ben loads up the girls and Mary to get her to the hospital as Ezekiel finds them once again. An epic battle between the two leads to another life for Cassie but one she clearly already knows as she promises the girls she will mentor them when the time comes!

Dakota as Cassie is a young woman who, after an accident, understands that perhaps it is time to discover what really happened to her mother. Once she does, it changes the way she sees her life. Now she wants to protect Julia, Anya and Mattie and the only way to do that is stop Ezekiel from capturing them.

Sweeney as Julia is the calm one who is trying to understand what is happening and counting on Cassie to find the answers. Merced as Anya clearly gets that someone wants to hurt all three of them and wants to stay together until they can figure it out. O’Connor as Mattie tends to push the limits of “stay here till I get back!” and each time is causing a lot of problems.

Rahim as Ezekiel knows what he did to Cassie’s Mom but the years has made him more bold and more powerful. He knows that three girls are going to try and stop him so his goal is to stop them first. Scott as Ben knows Cassie can be a mess in the way she handles things but that doesn’t stop him from wanting to help her. Mamet as Amaria has her own way of finding what Ezekiel needs.

Other cast includes Zosia Mamet as Amaria, Kathy-Ann Hart as Susan, Jose Yazpik as Santiago and Mike Epps as O’Neil.

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Bonus Materials on 4K UHD, Bluray and Digital include Gag Reel, Easter Eggs, Oracle of the Page, Fight Like a Spider, Future Vision, Casting the Web and Deleted Scenes. On DVD is Future Vision and Casting the Web.

MADAME WEB has a good start in the story it wants to tell. Johnson as Cassie takes us on the adventure to Peru to find those answers. There are bits of the story that are lacking in the way it is told but for fans who have been waiting for this film, it isn’t about to stop them from filling in the blanks on their own.

The film definetly has superheroine written all over it in the style of the story, the special effects and destruction that they always seem to leave in their wake. There is a definite connection between Cassie and the girls but the connection between Cassie and Ezekiel is clearly one that is rage and greed filled, let’s see which one lets it get to them the most.

Gather the family, a huge bowl of popcorn, turn the lights out and watch for something crawling across the walls and if you need to call for MADAME WEB!

In the end – her web connects them all!