Mediocre is the word that best describes this...

Rating: 5/10 (22 May 2020)

I was originally intending to give this movie a 6 or a 7. So i rewatched it and.. I settled on a 5. Damm, this was slightly worse than i remembered. Ok so this movie has some nice stuff doing for it, and some not so nice stuff going for it. First let's adress the fact that Sony decided to reboot Spiderman... 5 whole years after the previous iteration ended. So in comes Andrew Garfield and I live the guy and he makes an amazing Spiderman. Spidey in this movie is great, I feel like he's much more true to the comics and his humour is characteristic of him (though I despise that god awful suit they gave him). And he actually has web shooters now so that's nice! However, as great as Spidey is, Peter Parker is not done correctly. Andrew looks like a male model, the guy is cool, skates, is super smart, has friends.. he doesn't even get bullied! Just cause he's smart that doesn't make him a dork! Plus stealing an ID and laughing when the rightful owner gets kicked out.. that's a villain thing to do man! Other than that, I also like the romance, It's not annoying and there's chemistry between Gwen and Peter. Acting is fine, cinematography is fine and pacing is good and at the time introducing Peter's parents to the mix was an interesting thing to do (it failed miserably thanks to the sequel but oh well). Some nice fight scenes to, especially the one in the library. But that's where the good stuff ends. The rest is just... boring. The villain is.. ok. He is an interesting one and has a connection to Peter, but his plan is literally to turn the world into lizard people... also thanks for leaving a bunch of expository dialogue on the computer of your *secret* lab. Plus he looks.. bad. And i hate how he finds out who Peter is cause his camera had *property of Peter Parker* on it. Like cmon man! The whole uncle ben dying thing is just what we saw in 2002 bit with slightly different dialogue and the subway scene has more cuts than a Liam Nelson movie. This movie would be much better if it just wasn't so boring at times. 5.5/10. I'm being harsh but I just find this movie as one of those that you watch, enjoy a bit and then forget you ever saw. But hey at least it's better than the sequel!