Best Spiderman movie

Rating: 9/10 (22 July 2017)

For me the best Spiderman movie and right up there with the best of Marvel. The main reason for this. They've finally gotten a proper Peter Parker as well as a proper Spiderman. In my opinion they've never nailed Peter, always playing him too old. You've always had a school full of 30 somethings, but this time they feel and look like real teenagers (Garfield got the Spiderman part off to a tee, but not peter). Also though they've nailed the feel of the comics, they've not felt too burdened by them, allowing themselves to update things to reflect our times, perfectly portrayed by the update to the Flash Thomson character. In fact all the surrounding characters are excellent with particular kudos to Jacob Batalan's Ned. And also it has one of the most relate-able and strongest baddies so far in Marvel in Keaton's Vulture. Though you can't pass by the fact that he's making and selling weapons of, if not mass, at least major destruction to any tom, dick or harry, you can relate to how he feels betrayed by the system, and his speech to Peter about how the little people feed off the scraps of the big table does hit home a little. And the action, though not as spectacular as some of the bigger set pieces of previous films is perfect for the scale of this movie and is in at least one scene quite scary and moving at the same time. All in all it's a delight of a movie and it's nice to have a bit of a more personal, smaller scale story before we hit the really big bells and whistles stories we've got to come.