Less than amazing but good enough

Rating: Null/10 (9 June 2016)

I was a bit skeptical of the remake having liked the previous Spider-man trilogy. After watching this, I think they made a good choice for Andrew Garfield to be Spider-man. As for Gwen Stacy, I still preferred Kirsten Dunst over Emma Stone.
One thing that bothered me about this movie is that the bad guy is not bad enough. The antagonist is Dr. Curt Conners who turned into the Lizard through mutation. But I find the Lizard's motivation is very strained because the Lizard's violence also came from DNA mutation. And randomly he wanted to turn all humans into lizards? It's so random. What's worse is in the end, the Lizard doesn't even die, he just gets put in jail. But on the other hand Captain Stacy dies, in which I think his death is completely unjustified. Captain Stacy didn't even appear in much of the film until the end when he decided to help our Spider-man. Yet soon after, he dies.
Overall, this film has it's good parts that lives up to previous Spider-man film but it lacks a wow factor to bring Spider-man up to the next level.