A must watch for Spider man fans!

Rating: 8/10 (9 July 2012)

The movie was terrific in every sense. I wasn't sure what to expect from this reboot mainly because I thought it was unnecessary and I was expecting a sequel to Sam Raimi's trilogy. I have to be honest, I thought there was no possible way to top the first Spider man because it delivered everything I wanted to see in a super hero movie. But this movie completely blew me off and was much better than the last three movies in my opinion.
The performances of every actors where outstanding including Rhys Ifans who played the role of the villain, the Lizard. Emma Stone played the character of Gwen Stacey well and her romance with Parker was good and seemed natural.
Andrew Garfield played his role almost perfectly and portrayed Spider man just as in the comic books as most importantly did a much better job than Tobey Maguire. Hats off to the director for this achievement. I am not disrespecting Tobey but Andrew definitely showed better sense of the character of Peter Parker and Spider man.
The ups of this movie include : good action, good performances, good storyline and narration. The major narrative arc of this movie is what happened to Peter Parker's parents. This element is missing in the past three movies of Spider man. Unfortunately this movie leaves us with a cliffhanger and does not completely tell us the untold story of what happened to them and it is for the sequel to show us wider explanation.
The movie has more elements of drama than the first trilogy when it comes to finding out about Peter's parents. This is very good indeed as it brings newer story lines into the Spider man movie and not just fighting his enemies and saving innocent civilians. I feel this sort of storytelling is adapted from The Dark Knight trilogy of Christopher Nolan but it's still very good.
The first half of the movie might seem a bit excessive as there is nothing really happening that need to be acknowledged off. It certainly drags the side stories further which makes the movie feel a bit dull and boring. It is the second half that keeps us entertained which the introduction of the Lizard. These scenes keeps us on the edge of the scenes. There are three major fight scenes in the movie. This is not too much nor too less. Fight scenes are good and there are moments which is quite scary even when it is predictable. Although the climax is interesting it can be questionable as fans might have different opinions on how the villain is defeated.
Few downsides are also present. There are flaws in the movie but you wouldn't bee too concerned if you are attached to the main story and what is happening. *Spoiler alert* In a scene the policemen come to capture what they thought was a dead or unconscious Lizard are gassed by some chemical potion by the Lizard that made them turn slowly into Lizards themselves. The audience at this point believe that the policemen will turn to Lizards and come to attack the civilians along with the original Lizard. In the next scenes we see Spidey fighting with the Lizard and in the end just when Lizard is about to release the chemical cloud that turns humans to lizard-like from OsCorp's tower, Spider-Man eventually disperses an antidote cloud instead that turns back the earlier victims to normal. This might seem disappointing as you might have wanted the affected victims to turn lizard-like and start destroying the city before they are put back to normal. Another flaw is when the dying Captain George Stacey, father of Gwen Stacey makes Peter promise to keep Gwen safe by staying away from her, but then towards the end he decides to see her anyway. I actually wanted Peter to start seeing Gwen again in the sequel as it might have made more sense then.
There are humorous scenes which gives you few laughs as well that is needed to break some tension. The next movie should reveal what happened to Parker's parents and this story should be more interesting. I hope the villains will also be just as good as the Lizard.
Also stay tuned until the mid post credits scene which confirms the sequel for the movie.*Spoiler alert* I assume the mystery man to be Electro or Mysterio as they have ability to disappear and become invisible during lightening.
Overall, the movie is a complete entertainer as fans of Spider man will not be disappointed. It is a great much needed reboot of Spider man and I am sure you will agree with me if you watch it.
The movie gets a worthy 8 out of 10.