Too Many Plot Weaknesses, Can't Make Up For A Sincere Effort

Rating: 7/10 (17 January 2019)

7 July 2012. Try as one might, this movie had the same impact as No Country for Old Men (2007), the plot weaknesses couldn't make up for some exciting and emotive scenes that attempted to put some substantive quality into the superhero movie genre, like The Dark Knight (2008) using a darker plot and characters. But The Amazing Spider-Man (2012), the script and director appear to want everything bot the light, mainstream populist entertainment and humor along with the more serious undercurrent of supposedly three-dimensional characters. The mix doesn't work as well in this movie as in Spiderman-3 (2007).
The plot suffers from too many script weaknesses and devices: (1) the overly-fancy secure lock that Peter Parker is can so easily access into an apparently bio-level 4 hazardous facility, (2) the infecting spider scene didn't seem as plausible, with so many spiders, (3) the immediacy of the change and the rapid adaptation of Peter Parker seemed overly rushed (perhaps for the script-writer's important scenes to come) which unlike Spiderman (2002) didn't offer the elegant acoustical and even first-person sense perception, (4) Gwen Stacy's boyfriend implied seems to drop out of the picture too easily in regards to trying to keep Gwen, no typical jealousy scene, (5) Peter Parker's transformation into an obnoxious teenager seems also too abrupt as well as Dr. Curt Conner's behavior and attitude which was much more well-developed by Willem Defoe as Norman Osborne in Spiderman (2002), (6) a somewhat confusing Batman like unnecessary in this movie dependence on technology for the Spiderman's webbing better revealed as part of the natural transformation of Peter Parker himself, and (7) Gwen's father's intransigent attitude towards Peter Parker and denial of the more important monster on the loose belief was also over the top.
There was a sincere effort to transform this movie into more than the typical superhero, blockbuster movie - the later scene with Dr. Curt Conner and Peter Parker which was suggestive, but not as effective as Blade Runner (1982) and Rutger Hauer's performance and dialogue as Roy Batty. Even the typical nerd scenes in the beginning had a more serious and dramatic presentation and yet Peter Parker's personality and sarcastic behavior later in the movie seemed to be overplayed. The movie even included some creative and exciting but only suggestive first-person perspectives of Spiderman's thrilling execution of moving around skyscrapers and buildings (but failed to take advantage of it - perhaps for some future theme part ride). Overall, the movie tried to remake Spiderman, but it couldn't incorporate the sincere attempt into a well balanced and believable movie.