I'll preface this by saying though I don't read the comic books, I know about Spider-man. Peter Parker is a clumsy, nerdy, uber-smart kid who stumbles into greatness getting bit by a radioactive spider. Andrew Garfield played him as a smug emo fuck and that pissed me right off. This movie offered a slightly different spin on Spider-man's origin and made a bastardization of the character of Peter Parker. I like the lizard and can defend Rhys Ifans playing Dr. Kurt Connors, but once again there were certainly other choices that would've been better (Show me Mark Ruffalo). Upgrades in Martin Sheen, Dennis Leary, and Emma Stone, but HUGE downgrades with Garfield and Ifans over the first Spider-man. It offers some nice special effects, a cameo that I confirmed with IMDB featuring C. Thomas Howell, decent acting by Stone, Leary, Sheen, and Sally Fields, but all in pretty limited roles besides Stone. I was not much of a fan in any capacity of this film. Fell short of being a Summer blockbuster, falls into the "spent a bunch of money and it's OK" role of Summer film.
Bottom Line: 6.1 out of 10. Really didn't do much for me in anything. I couldn't get over my hatred for Andrew Garfield and how he had no Peter Parker qualities in my opinion. Watch when it's on TNT in two years.
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