

Webb, a longtime music video director, brings the strength of his flashy visuals (which in 4K are completely legit) and only previous feature film, (500) Days of Summer, to the Spider-Man story and mines the pages and panes of the comic for some additional emotion and a couple of extra shakes of reality. Spider-Man becomes one side of his nature, but his soul – egged on by Ben’s words and a police captain ( Denis Leary) – struggles for release as he battles his way in the streets and skies with a stark-raving madman called The Lizard. He comes clean to Gwen and - after finding no love inside the police force and media - continues the search for himself from behind the mask. Parker, guided by anger/resentment toward a family that abandoned him long ago for no good reason and Uncle Ben’s death, uses his powers to track down the person and people responsible for the tragedy in his life. This time, though, the writers give Parker the comic book-approved web shooters which should please the fans as he takes to the rooftops and fights crime. With a playful sense of humor, Webb examines the daily life of a teenager suddenly granted powers that are certainly unnatural. Here, sneaking into Oscorp, Parker is bitten by a radioactive spider and … well … you know the rest. Connors wants to create a world without weakness and, in doing so, discovers a way for humans to regenerate missing limbs through studies in cross-species genetics. Curt Connors ( Rhys Ifans) at Oscorp Industries.ĭr. Bullied by Flash Thompson ( Chris Zylka) and befriended by Gwen Stacy ( Emma Stone), Parker stumbles upon a long-thought missing item from his late and mysterious scientist father’s past that leads him to the biotech laboratory of Dr. He's known for his photographic skills, but mainly he just wants to disappear. Written by James Vanderbilt, Steve Kloves, and Alvin Sargent, The Amazing Spider-Man tells the story of one lanky Peter Parker ( Andrew Garfield) as he struggles with the memory of his parents’ abandonment and what the means for him as he wanders (and rides his skateboard) through the halls of his high school. "Webb has done Spider-man’s fans and Stan Lee (who has the best cameo yet) a solid favor with an origin film that literally – on all fronts – kicks some major ass"
