Thursday 12 July 2012

The Amazing Spider-Man (2012) 8/10

Starring : Andrew Garfield, Emma Stone, Rhys Ifans, Denis Leary, Sally Field, Martin Sheen
Director : Marc Webb
Running Time : 135 mins

While searching for the reason behind his parents mysterious disappearance, Peter Parker (Garfield) discovers that his father had a business partner named Curt Connors (Ifans) who now works for a company named Oscorp. Disguising himself as an intern, Peter sneaks into Oscorp to search Connors lab for information, where he is bitten by a radioactive spider.

In many ways this is a much cleaner cut version of the Spider-Man origin that manages to avoid the whole topic of why a multi-national company would have such dangerous equipment lying around in the open. It’s a shame that Parker isn’t as nerdy as he is in the comics and the Sam Raimi movies, but Garfield and Stone do a great job in the leads, with Ifans playing an almost perfect version of the Lizard.

You’ll like this if you liked : X-Men : First Class



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