Underwhelming villain

Rating: 6/10 (17 January 2014)

I was reluctant to see this reboot of Spiderman because I felt it was too early for that, Sam Raimi made his Spiderman movies 2002-2007. I thought of it as a reboot of a reboot and to be honest I didn't like Raimis movies that much. Only thing I liked there was James Francos Harry Osborn in part 2. This time we have a new Spiderman and I must say this time he is more similar to the Spidey from the comics, I always liked his funny one-liners. As for the casting for Peter Parker I'm not sure if Andrew Garfield was best choice but I don't who could have been better, I can only say that something is missing. As for the villain, he is pretty underwhelming, but that it is understandable because his main opponents from the villain-pantheon have been already been used in the last iterations of the movies. Dr.Connors lizard is too similar to the Abomination from The Hulk reboot with Edward Norton and the fight between him and Spiderman is nothing spectacular, brute force against agility, been there-done that. There are also some illogical things in the movie, for example Gwen Stacy (super-hot Emma Stone) is at the same time in the high-school and in ultra-modern high technology company Oscorp. And people say that American education system is bad. And we also have stupid scene when Peter visits Oscorp for the first time. When Dr.Connors asks the students what is the nature of his research, they don't have a clue, only Peter knows the answer and he read it in the internet!!! I thought that those students love science and know at least something, but alas they have no idea. It is directors way to present Peter as more intelligent. All in all, entertaining but forgettable movie, no more than that.