Peter Parkour!

Rating: 5/10 (23 August 2012)

Mark Webb ("get it, web?!") is a better director than Sam Raimi, in terms of the human conflict. Raimi is a cult director who's great at exploitation and camp (hence, the success of the awesome 'Evil Dead' series).
I'm not in any way knocking Raimi as a filmmaker. But Spider-Man was always not quite his comfort zone, which is why it was such a big deal (at the time, anyway) that he was chosen to take on Spidey and that he delivered such a blockbuster series. (Before he latched on to the project, James Cameron was ready to film, with Arnie credited as Doc Ock. I kinda like the fact that the "Throw me the whip" dude got it instead.) So, back to Amazing Spider-Man: the setup scenes are awful. The moments showing Peter's gradual realization of his newfound skills are terrible, and so much worse than Raimi's vision.
If the 'learning' period of Raimi's film was the best (and btw, yes, Uncle Ben's death in Raimi's series was WAY more heartfelt than in the new one!), then the new film takes the edge in terms of action. The last 20 minutes or so are pretty cool.
But that's kinda it?! I expected more, honestly.