Not bad, not great, just kinda there.

Rating: 5/10 (26 January 2019)

There's a lot of movie characters out there that you immediately recognize namely guys like Superman, Batman and Spider-Man. Their lives have been with up from the very beginnings and when things go differently we notice.
And that's possibly my biggest gripe with Andrew Garfield's portrayal of Spider-Man. Actually that's not true. I liked his Spider-Man. It was his Peter Parker that I didn't like.
It's the same for just about any hero out there. They are in essence playing two roles. The role when they put on the mask the tights, and the role in their secret identity.
Some have done a good job of balancing the two, others not so much. And as much as I rag on Tobey McGuire's rendition of the same character he at least did a good job in portraying both. Andrew Garfield didn't. As I said his Spider-Man was good. He had that quippy nature that Spider-Man has but lacked the nerdiness that Peter Parker is supposed to have. After all, Spider-Man is what allows Peter Parker to be who he wants to be. It gives him confidence. But Andrew Garfield's performance is that of a skater bro. Not a popular one but one who's trying to act cool all the time.
That's not Peter Parker. And since the second movie didn't do all that well they scrapped him for another version that most people agree is a step up.