A new standard is set

Rating: 10/10 (31 May 2002)

To start: this is by far the best comic book adaption I have ever seen. The fact that this movie is situated in a real life city, makes it far more attractive than other super-hero movies. Sam Raimi did a very good Job creating a fantastic, visual fantastic action movie. OK, other super hero movies like the X-MEN offer nice visuals to, but when it comes to the acting, spiderman makes the X-MEN bite the dust! All acting is on a very high level. Tobey Maguire IS Peter Parker, the nerdish student, Willem Dafoe IS The Green Goblin/Norman Osborn (Osborn talking with his alter-ego is very cool) In fact this movie actually displays all the characters known from the comic books in the exact same way as you would imagine them out of the comic books. And, the art direction.... tremendous! The way spidey swings through the streets is very, very , impressive. Certain parts of this movie feel like if you are in a very cool rollercoaster ride. Now the question rises: does this movie have any weak sides? The answer is yes. EG, a microphone swinging through the screen. Do these weak sides bother? HELL NO!!! Spiderman is a fantastic piece of top-entertaining eye-candy.
Well brothers and sisters, I think Spiderman is the new standard in how a comic book should be translated to a great movie. Therefore this movie deserves a 9.5 out of 10