The Amazing Spider-Man in my opinion is an underrated reboot.

Rating: 8/10 (8 July 2017)

The Amazing Spider-Man is directed by Marc Webb and stars Andrew Garfield as the web slinger himself and Emma Stone as his crush, Gwen Stacy, and Rhys Ifans as doctor Curtis Connors/The Lizard. This movie, like the previous Spider-Man films, was very hyped and anticipated for. The reactions were very split for this movie. Some people hated this movie, some people loved this movie. I certainly don't hate this movie but I don't quite love this movie either. I like it a lot. I love some scenes, but there are a couple flaws preventing this film from being great rather than being just good.
The movie begins with Peter as a young boy and already this film score is not as good as Danny Elfman's score for Raimi's trilogy. James Horner, however, did do a very nice job, just not quite as well as Elfman's. I like this scene with Peter as a boy. It explores ground that wasn't discussed much in Raimi's trilogy. Other than that, most of this movie retreads the first Spider- Man. I honestly don't have a problem with that. Force Awakens did a similar thing but they did it well. So did this movie.
Andrew Garfield is a very good Spider- Man in this movie, but not as much of a Peter Parker. He's kind of a punk, he rides his skateboard in school, and, of course, he sounds like a 27 year old. And that's because Andrew Garfield was 27 when casted for this movie. However, I love his chemistry with Gwen Stacy. The reason it was so good was because Andrew and Emma were dating in real life. And some people really hate seeing Uncle Ben die again, but I honestly don't mind it because technically speaking, it's one of the best scenes in the movie. Great performances, lighting, set pieces and music.
Let's talk about Spider-Man. I love the action scenes. His action style is awesome. The special effects are great. It's cool to see a smart Spider-Man. What I don't like as much was his suit. It looks very basket ball like and his eye pieces look like sunglasses. That's because that's exactly what his eyepieces are and his costume design just seemed lazy in my opinion.
The Lizard in this movie was ultimately wasted. He starts out like he can be this really cool villain but his evil plot ended up being sort of disappointing and ultimately absurd. It was kind of distracting. I liked the action scenes with him, but his visual design also could've been better. His comic design looked better than the design we actually got.
Speaking of the action scenes, while being good, it takes over half the movie to even get to one action sequence either the Lizard. It's kind of sad actually. We have a lot of build up to Peter and Spider-Man and the Lizard. The good thing is the build up is good but they needed to get to the point faster. The first Spider-Man had his first fight with Green Goblin in the second act. In this movie, Spider-Man and the Lizard don't have an action sequence until the beginning of the third act. It takes awhile to get to the point. That's the only problem. I like the scenes leading up to the epic action scenes, but it was just too long for my liking.
I certainly don't hate this movie I like a lot of the scenes and love some of them too. In my opinion, it isn't as good as the first two Raimi Spider- Man movies, but certainly better than Spider-Man 3.