rewarding screen time

Rating: 8/10 (5 July 2012)

In England, this came out July 3, so my local 2d screening of this was near full, 9 seats left. It's worth a look, not in 3d of course, but it's much better than the last Spiderman 3.
Andrew Garfield is a much better Peter Parker, looking and acting much closer to the Steve Ditko classic Parker. Emma Stone is charming, and looks good as a blonde, she wears these horrid boots though! The movie is very different from the Sam Rami trio, which were top entertainment, but as a first movie, this is better. The action shots of web swinging, over head shots mood good, not tight in a certain scene with the excellent Martin Sheen, which could of been handled much better story wise, that needed more time, and the movie was quite on the short side, again, 5 to 7 minutes more to flesh out the family side of things would of sorted this out, that is my only problem with this film, just a bit short.
Just why it cost $200 million is anybody's guess, but it's worth your time seeing this.