Dynamically impressive; great, yet there are a few flaws.

Rating: Null/10 (5 May 2002)

***SLIGHT SPOILERS*** Definitely box-office material. A rising actor (who's been mostly the supportive actor in movies) is waiting in the wings to take on a lead-through breaking role! A veteran director who has learned so much from his movie-making is getting the chance to embrace the audience again like he did with the 'Evil Dead' series, which launched a cult following. And you got a hot-babe actress who's been plastered into any magazine you can read in a Waldenbooks or even, a grocery store. In addition, you can get a top notch villain-looking actor who's starred in 'Streets of Fire' and that vampire-actor movie which he released like 2 years ago playing Nosferatu with John Malkovich. And legendary great actor, Cliff Robertson, himself. Good for the moral advice. To sum it up, put in America's Web-headed Hero in comic books for almost 40 years now which has catapulted a great following spewing webs back and forth on buildings and kicking major a** on the antagonists, and what do you have? A great movie all in itself. These are some really cool ingredients put altogether. You can't say anything bad about it ... except, there's some portions you can tell like knowing the CGI Spidey from the costumed Maguire. But hey, it beats the T.V. Series from the 70's which didn't even came, not even close to Spidey's freeflow movements here. The same for Green Goblin. I did spotted some more bad things like a license plate on a car which looked different somewhat. I don't know if it is a NY one or not. And about the Spider that bit Parker, if he stung more people, everyone would be having the powers too. That mutated Spider should've been caught later. Also with Parker obtaining these powers, any one in the high school should know by now (because Parker showed it) that HE is Spider-Man. I'm sure anyone would figure that right off the bat ... Going back to praise the movie, Maguire is awesome. Kirsten Dunst is too. Good to know a sequel is in the works. Good job director Sam Raimi. I loved everything totally just about. Looks very comic-book like just as it should be! 9.0/ out of 10. Kudos to Stan Lee for accepting this movie. Your dream came true! Excelsior!