Far From Amazing

Rating: 1/10 (28 January 2014)

Where to begin? From the first trailer for this movie I was worried, and once I saw it my fears were confirmed. As far as the story goes its basically a rehashing of Spider-Man's origin story with a few changes. The famous line "With great power comes great responsibility" is completely omitted from the film and that line is what is supposed to inspire Peter. The acting in this film was mediocre at best with the exception of Martin Sheen. The films main villain The Lizard looks cheesy and is portrayed weakly. This film tries to hard to have a style similar to that of Christopher Nolan's Batman trilogy which doesn't make sense as the characters are tonally different from one another. Also director Marc Webb tries to pander to the Twilight fans by making this version of Peter Parker a depressed kid just wanting to be loved. This film has ruined a once great character and is the beginning of a trilogy that only looks to go downhill from here. Avoid this film and watch the old Sam Raimi Spider-Man films.