An average movie

Hollywood is really getting kind of hopeless nowadays. I mean, even if you did like them or not, all the previous Spider-Man flicks were some huge blockbusters and it was rather weird to reboot the franchise only 5 years later when it was in fact doing just fine. And, indeed, it was pretty obvious that rebooting was not really a good choice. Basically, origin stories always tend to be rather weak, except maybe for 'Batman Begins' but, even in this case, the sequel turned out to be way better. Here, it was actually even worse because we already had an origin story for this character and even though they did add some new elements, both plotlines were just way too similar. Sure, they did make the main character younger, they gave him some gadgets, they changed his girlfriend's name but, all in all, it was just about the same thing. Still, as a stand-alone feature, I have to admit that it was still pretty entertaining. There were some spectacular scenes, Spider-Man remains a badass superhero and Andrew Garfield really rocked this performance. Whereas the rest of the cast was decent but vastly underused, Garfield gave a very nuanced performance and he was completely convincing, probably even better than Tobey Maguirre. To conclude, it is obvious they shouldn't have made yet another origin story, above all so similar to the previous one, but it was still a well made and enjoyable blockbuster and it is worth a look, especially if you like the genre.