The Spider-Man series of movies started in 2002 and just had its last entry in 2007. So, who's ready for a reboot? Apparently, Columbia Pictures was by having a new director, a new cast and retelling the origin story. The results of that is the new film The Amazing Spider-Man, a "better than I expected" movie. The movie centers around Peter Parker(played by Andrew Garfield) who is an awkward science geek that's big into photograph. He also has big crush on a girl in his high school named Gwen Stacy(played by Emma Stone). While visiting the OsCorp research facility, he gets bitten by a radioactive spider and gains super abilities. While reviewing this movie, it's hard not to compare it with Spider-Man(2002).
Here's the things I thought the movie got right:
The relationship between Parker and Stacy(and the fact that she was his film love in the comic book)
Spider-Man/Peter Parker-Spider-Man has more of the funny smart ass feel that he has in the comic.The movement of Spider-Man was more acrobatic and that played well in the movie. Peter was mostly on point(except for the tempter tantrums)
The actions scenes in general.
The things not so right:
Certain aspect of the story.(Peter Parker's parents aspect of the story was introduced as big plot point but never goes anywhere with it.)
Other relationships in the movie(namely between Parker and Uncle Ben(Martin Sheen) and Parker and Dr. Conners (Rhys Ifans).
First person shooter cam (no pun intended)
The slow pace of the movie until he gets bitten.
The graphics of The Lizard and anything to do with missing limbs.
So, while the movie was good, it wasn't perfect and not as good as the 2002 movie. The comparison of the two would be like this movie was like The Hulk(scientific and story wise) and the 2002 film was like Incredible Hulk(dealt with things evenly and the action was more spread out and came quicker).
Rating: 8.0 out of 10.
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