Madame Web and Kraven the Hunter

Movies where death unlocks super powers?

Madame Web

When paramedic Cassandra Webb (played by Dakota Johnson) starts getting glimpses of the future (thanks to a bite from a magical spider), she ends up trying to save some future female spider women from an evil spider man. This is definitely a strange one with "girl power" motif plot holes, passing the stupid ball around aplenty while having decent action segments and showing that before Peter Parker was spider man, everyone else was spider man!

The amount of time it takes for our heroine to work out her own powers is hilarious which subsequently heads into the WTF territory when she becomes OP (girl power yo) and the bad guy becomes comic relief due to the amount of times he fails. I still found it entertaining, but maybe that's because I had set my expectations bar really low. :P  

Kraven the Hunter

This movie focuses on the bane of poachers and bad guys in general - Kraven the Hunter (played by Aaron Taylor-Johnson), who is gifted (thanks to a bite from a magical lion) with super strength, super speed and super luck that all the gun toting enemies are terrible shots. 

As it is an origin story one fourth of the movie is spent in a flash back while the rest is so oddly paced and has scenes that have no purpose other than extending the run time. At least the action bits are pretty nice and the CGI animals are ok (but clearly a step down from the SFX of other Marvel movies) but some of the acting is... not great.  

Ultimately I think I enjoyed Madame Web more, which is not a good sign for this flick.