A surprising improvement, that left potential

Rating: 7/10 (2 July 2012)

Firstly off. The casting, and the execution of the casting was great. Garfield outplayed Maguire by miles. Most of the acting was spot on. I do though believe that Ifans and Sheen could have done better, but It was mostly because the manusscript could have been a little bit better. For example, the main theme of spiderman has always been "With great power, comes great responsibility". We never witnessed that on the screen. That was quite a shock.
Also a few scenes seemed to bee cut off from the trailer. For example a scen where Ifans character Dr Connors says something like "Peter, you have no idea what you are". Not in the movie. Maybe it will be on the directors cut.
By the way, I saw the movie in 3d and the CGI was a lot better than in the original trailers, which was something I was worried about. Also the humour was most of the time spot on the whole audience laughed together. Yet, I feel there were a lot of space for improvement. For example was some of the action scenes a little bit to long, and sometimes the story felt rushed.
Well, primary, what Webb and the guys did, was the best and most accurate spiderman interpretation so far. It certainly had it flaws, but it was an improvement of the old three and in my opinion overrated films. This one had humour, suspense, thriller and even though a lot of questions got answered, they succeeded buildning a story arc they can build on to with another movie, which potentially will make this one even better.
My guess for next enemy? Mysterious. A scene after the credits displayed something that made me think of him. But the revealed sickness of Orman Osbourne surely leaves green goblin ready for a role.
All in all, good movie, and great entertainmant. A solid 7 / 10 with flaws but with all that you can aspect from a precise executed popcorn flick.