One of the best live-action comic book adaptations EVER

Rating: 10/10 (8 May 2002)

What can I say? I saw the movie and liked it so much I HAD to see it again as soon as I could. And I did.
Toby Maguire is awesome as Peter Parker. I had never seen his work before but I was so impressed, I have to. I was also worried that Kyrsten Dunst didn't have the chops to do a believable Mary Jane Watson. I was dead wrong. Not only was she incredibly good as an actor in the movie, she was excruciatingly hot, too (who didn't love her in the wet shirt?).
The special effects made the action sequences some of the best I've ever seen. Any problems with the fx can be chalked up to the relatively primitive level of computer Graphics.
One of the main reasons I loved this movie is that it has a comic book ending instead of a Hollywood ending. Peter Parker could have the girl of his dreams but instead of just grabbing for her, he decides that he does not want her to be placed at risk again as a consequence of what he does as an extracurricular activity. The ending was gutsy and true to the kind of life a man like Peter Parker or Bruce Wayne would have to live.