WOW!Great Movie!

Rating: 10/10 (13 May 2002)

***SPOILERS*** ***SPOILERS*** This was one of the few movies that I sworn to see for sure and i didn't wanted to search for spoilers.I liked the idea of seeing Spiderman,one of the coolest comic heroes ever on the big screen,especially after "X-men" set up new standards on comic adaptions.
I was pleasantly suprised to see that Tobey Maguire wasn't so bad as i thought (my favourite canditate was...Freddie Prinze Jr.) but he surpased my wildest expectations.Willem Dafoe as Green Goblin delivers a great performance (his monologue/dialogue opposite his mirror was AWESOME!).Kirsten Dunst was sexy and believable.I didn't knew James Franco before but in this movie he delivers:He looks really like being Dafoe's young son (great casting here) and he has a great photogeny.And offcourse J.K.Simmons,whose performance and looking as J.J.Jameson made the audience in the theatre applause every time he was on screen. The performances were great,far superior than any other action movie and the great work on casting helped a lot.The effects weren't perfect but still they were very very good.The camera techniques used for this film blew my mind away!When Peter Parker hunts his uncle's murder through the skycrapers it is as if i were into a rollercoster!Breathtaking and in the same time never irritating.
I don't know what many of you think but the last act in the cemetery,with Harry telling that he will take revenge upon Spiderman and Peter refusing the love of Mary Jane,is great job and something different than other movies (the hero wins the villain and takes the girl).
My only instance has to do with two scenes.I don't want to be senseless but i didn't like the scene in the bridge,where the people of New York are throwing several object to the Green Goblin,saying that "if you mess up with Spiderman,you mess up with the whole New York city" or something.The second scene is the ending,where Spiderman crawls on the USA flag.Both scenes seem to be puted there just to satisfy the people after the tragical events of the 11th September.I don't have any problem against such of thing,movies are here to make people forget their everyday problems,but those two scenes seem to be just made up for this case.I hope i would not get missunderstood.
Resuming,i would like to say that the movie gets 5/5 points for me.A great example of superb action movie.I hope that "X-men 2" and Ang Lee's "The Hulk" would follow the standards Spidey set on.And hopefully i beg that it would be a sequel!