Every decision leads to a consequence

Rating: 9/10 (7 July 2012)

The Amazing Spider-man isn't supposed to be a reboot to the previous films. It's supposed to reinvent the original comic book story of spider-man and it succeeded.
The first half of the movie is telling about the rise up from normal loser Peter Parker to new mind set Peter Parker. Peter (Andrew Garfield) has a normal life filled with a bully, a passion of photography, and a long time crush. All of this changes when he helps his Uncle Ben (Martin Sheen) clean up the flooded basement. It just so happens that when Peter was a child and when his parents left him at his Aunt and Uncles that his dad had his Uncle hide his briefcase filled with secret documents. Peter finds the documents in the basement buried and he searches through the bag only to find clues from his (now dead) fathers past. He finds out from his uncle that his father had an associate and a best friend who was trying to find a way to enhance human capacity of strength and life.
Peter makes his way to Oscorp where Dr. Curtis Connors (Rhys Ifans) works at. Peter ends up impressing the doc enough that the doc lets Peter into his house after he tells him that he's Richard Parker's son. Peter figures out the algorithm that will lead to curing any weakness in every body. Peter ends up getting bitten in Oscorp by the way by a genetically enhanced spider and that is how he gets his powers but it's not like he just instantly knows how to use them. There's a subway (accidental) fight that proves Peter doesn't know yet how to use them. After changing into a whole different personality and being distant from his Aunt and Uncle he ends up getting his uncle shot. He feels so bad about his uncles death that he makes a mask and goes out into the streets to find his killer. He ends up realizing his destiny to become the city's protector. Doctor Connors is then told through that week that his experiments are being shut down and terminated. So the doc experiments on himself in hopes of mutating his lost arm back. He succeeds....with a price. He overdoses and thus creates the lizard.
My favorite scene through the movie is (spoiler!) when Peter gets shot in the leg after the captain orders SWAT to hold fire and one of the SWAT members hesitate. Then Peter, bleeding out, tries to climb up a building up to the roof. There was a scene before that part where Peter saves a little boy from a burning car. You have to know that little extra sentence because that little boys father just so happens to be a construction worker. He tells every one of his coworkers to help Spidey out with getting from the roof of that building to Oscorp by swinging off of their cranes. Peter figures out that they're trying to help him and in slow motion he runs on the roof towards the ledge cueing the heroic music and jumps in hopes of swinging off of his webs on the cranes toward Oscorp.
This movie may be a remake but it is hands down the better first part of the Spider-man movies than the actual first Spider-man movie.