A Pretty Good Flick

Rating: 8/10 (8 September 2019)

Spider-Man is, simply put, a basic and pretty good superhero film that holds up to this very day.
The plot is where a teenager, Peter Parker (played by Tobey Maguire) gets bitten by a radioactive spider during a field trip and feels incredibly nauseous. He wakes up the next day and notices he feels stronger and better than ever, and had the ability to climb walls, shoot webs and fight full power. After his uncle, Ben Parker (played by Cliff Robertson) gets gunned down, he finds his killer and sees this as a perfect opportunity to become a hero of New York. He then forms a costume, and is now known as Spider-Man.
Meanwhile, a scientist, Norman Osborn (played by Willem Dafoe), does an experiment where he tests out an enhancing chemical on himself, and it gives him the power to go insane and create havoc. Soon, his company, Oscorp, gets sold out by his board members. Norman than suits up as the Green Goblin, and creates terror in New York. Peter Park / Spider- Man must save the city from the Green Goblin, and protect the love of his life, Mary Jane (played by Kirsten Dunst) from being killed.
Spider-Man is a pretty good, well made, and straightforward movie. The origin story of Spider-Man becoming who he is was well made and had a great pace for 2 hours. The cast all did a great job. Tobey Maguire, in my opinion, has always been my favorite Spider-Man. He knows how to act normal and tough, and had great chemistry with Kirsten Dunst.
Willem Dafoe was also a very good and intimidating choice for the Green Goblin. He had funny and cool one-liners, and knew how to be very villanous. I even didn't mind the Goblin costume he wore, it looked pretty cool.
The other actors, like James Franco (as Harry Osborn), Rosemary Harris (as Aunt May), Cliff Roberson, and of course, J.K Simmons (as J. Jonah Jameson) did a phenomenal job.
The action in the fight scenes are also really entertaining as well and Sam Rami did a pretty good job at directing this film out.
Bottom line, Spider-Man was a pretty good first entry in the Spidey film series.