Definitely the more amazing Spiderman

Rating: 7/10 (15 July 2012)

Before the movie was even released at the cinema, it was seen as a huge risk to even reboot Spiderman after the relatively successful Trilogy prior to The Amazing Spiderman. That said it, seems to have been a risk to be thankful of.
The Amazing Spiderman begins with a brief overview of Peter Parker's background and his parents. Setting the scene for Peter as a person and his beliefs. This can be expanded to really what sets this film apart from Raimi's Spiderman, in that the character development is in my opinion a lot more in-depth and intriguing with the main characters, than in Raimi's. You get to see Peter Parker grow into Spiderman once he acquires his abilities and for example, you get to see Dr Connors reasoning for doing the experiments he is doing with genetics. You got to see Peter Parkers detective skills, intelligence, and inner wars with his own beliefs all build up to who he wanted to be as Spiderman. Garfield, Stone and Ifans gave awesome performances, such that you wished the director to add on a few extra minutes onto some of the emotional scenes and tone down some of the action scenes.
I feel the action is very levelled. There are moments where you feel it almost goes over the top, and moments where you yearn for there to be more than what is actually given. However, they fitted into the film well and were also settings for some of the more humorous moments, something else this film produced fairly often with ease. I would say that some of the sequences were slightly effected when watching it in 3D as I seemed to find it got blurry.
Overall I believe The Amazing Spiderman beats Raimi's Spiderman, and lays solid ground work for future films. It built Spiderman up and looked at what it takes for Peter Parker to balance being a superhero and being human, rather than someone with complete spider abilities.