Train Wreck

Rating: 4/10 (18 May 2019)

The worst representation of Spider-Man in comic book film history. The audience while watching may not pay attention to how arrogant and criminal like he is - Spider-Man. As Andrew Garfield acting makes it come across as charming. When he goes to OsCorp to try to find out what his parents were looking into, he probably steals someones opportunity of a lifetime. That does sound really bad doesn't it? And instead of feeling guilty he smirks. But because Andrew looks good-looking we, the audience, think he could get away from everything. And it's not just his good looks. It is his personality. He acts so cocky.When Uncle Ben died (which is essential since it is deemed to drive the whole movie) they argued so much I didn't properly feel a connection. But it also had something to do with the fact that they tried to get us to feel sympathy for almost everyone. But the real problem with the scene was Uncle Ben put himself in danger. The killer ran a block and bumped into Ben, and by the way, he has no idea what is going on - Ben. The killer falls over and drops his gun. Ben sees it and he strangely screams and then grabs the gun. Doesn't get to it first and gets shot. Why did he do that? That really made me hate this movie. When Peter went to find his Uncle's killer. He literally beat up anyone who looked like him no just that but he also wore a mask while doing it. You could see the look on the innocent people faces.
This movie wasn't pushed by 'Great power comes great responsibility', this film was motivated by revenge. And this is certainly the directors choice, not Andrews. And the parents being added to the plot was too much they should've started at the leaving Peter scene and saved the rest for the sequel. I guess you could say that this is a bad Spider-Man film, but I would like to argue that this is just a bad film. The three editors (that's right, just three) made a scene that I almost liked and weirdly turned into a near Michael Bay action scene. The constant white and black full screen flashes would show whenever he touched someone on the train. And it seemed like a mistake. The reason I almost liked this scene was that this determined what his rest of life was supposed to be like. And the editors ruined it. But the next two scenes were better at suming his rest of like up. They were funny. Something that every superhero movie is ment to show. Also I thought that the relationship scenes between Gwen and Peter were way too long - Although they were cute together. The villain was one of the best parts of the movie. Played by Rhys Ifans, the villain was Dr. Curt Connors or otherwise known as the Lizard in comics. The reason I loved him so much was how he was built up made me and probably everyone else, feel so much sympathy and was the only one that gave me sympathy for him. And it kind of made the antagonist feel justified in a way and particularly at the end, he knew what he was doing was wrong. The CGI had to be used and it was good, but nothing exceptional. But humorously he does look like the Goombas from the Super Mario Movie (search it up), but if you compare it to a comic appearance of the Lizard it looks like it would be hard to try and parody that into a movie.
The fight scenes were remarkable. And I think everyone can agree that the Stan Lee cameo was one of the best moments in the movie. The background settings they used for the antagonist was adapted straight from the comics. If I had to make the villain a smidge better I would have Andre Braugher play him. Rhys was fine. Andre has a stone cold character in some of his movies and shows which I think it would be an excellent fit with the villain. The costume for Spider-Man could have unquestionably been enhanced. I believe it looked to leathery and there was too much blue. Andrew Garfield brought a fantastic New Yorker accent to Peter Parker. And frankly he just had a bad script and unmistakably bad directing. Emma Stone played Gwen Stacy and she was average in this movie. The audio was alright but when Andrew and Emma were performing a scene together as Peter and Gwen, it was very quiet. Mainly there voices. Nothing ridiculously impressive. The ending was a little powerless. With this grade, I'm being really generous.