The Amazing... whatever.

Rating: 2/10 (29 December 2012)

And I thought time-travel flicks had the most holes in the story, illogical spots and generally "senseless-but-looks-good-on-screen" sequences! Since many of them were already noticed in other reviews, lemme just mention a couple more:
1. School campus fighting scene: Young Peter is standing up for another boy, who is being mobbed by the school jock. For whatever reason, solely calling the jock "Eugene" costs Peter a couple of juicy punches and a kick on the ground while everyone else watches. OK, seriously, since when do "science high schools" even have jocks, and how come a fight on the school grounds goes entirely unnoticed by the staff?!
2. Basketball scene: Sure, punching and kicking apparently belongs to the "scientific" education. But oh my, humiliating a jock while playing basketball is reason enough to summon parents and school counselors.
3. The evil doc only goes into Lizard mode by injecting himself with the vaccine on regular basis. Yet, he is determined to "share" the gift with the broad public. So, just to get this straight: is he planning to climb that building pole and disperse the green stuff every other day or so? Because otherwise, I kinda don't see the sense.
...and few words on the cast choice:
1. Poor Andrew Garfield, however convincing in other movies (such as "Never let me go"), has this slightly handicapped air about him, and for most of the movie looks as if he is about to cry.
2. Emma Stone, on the other hand, is this sexy/cool, mini-skirt, long-stockings lab gal, with access to the lab's most valuable and dangerous biotechnology. And doesn't consider neither:
->finding out your boyfriend has mutated into a half-spider with super powers, nor
->first-time spider-flying through the city a couple hundred meters high while hanging on a string
...even a bit worthy of an adequate reaction. Or, in fact, of ANY reaction.
How ever this movie got more than a 7 on IMDb is beyond me.