Competent But Unnecessary Take On The Character.

Rating: 6/10 (18 September 2017)

The Amazing Spiderman movies were the result of Sony trying to keep themselves wholly independent of MARVEL Studio's influence or rights-holding; and the film really shows it years on from its release. This is like if a Chris-Nolan-wannabe did Spidey knowing all the basic stuff on the character and decided to cut out all the occasional humour/campiness of the Raimi movies that made them stand out from somber action flicks. Not that I really have anything against Marc Webb as a director, but you'd think that his work on 500 Days of Summer would have better reflected the teen-drama aesthetic present in the Spiderman stories. Sadly the vibrancy of Summer doesn't come up in this Spiderman movie. Though Emma Stone as Gwen Stacey is some of the best casting this side of 2010s Hollywood.
All in all it's a Spiderman movie; just not a standout one. A placeholder for those who wanted to see Sam Raimi's series continue. Now that Spiderman Homecoming is out Spiderman is now part of much bigger and better things. And thank goodness for Disney and Sony agreeing on sharing the character at all.