Luckily, the climactic battle atop the Oscorp Tower is intercut with parallel action involving the plucky Gwen, who risks her life in an attempt to immunize all New Yorkers from becoming lizards. The Lizard is not especially inspired and seems limited to the dramatic range of a Godzilla. The best of all the "Spider-Man" movies remains Raimi's " Spider-Man 2" (2004), with the best of the series' villains, Doc Ock. That, and the fact that Andrew Garfield is very good-looking, and the mask reminds me of Hellboy wearing a screen door. That also may help explain why Peter/Spider-Man spends so much time not wearing the mask. The kid is able to assist in his own rescue after putting on Spidey's face mask I doubt the mask has magical powers, but simply provides a psychological boost.
This sets up various close calls and reconciliations, and the movie's single best action scene, when Spidey rescues a boy from a burning car dangling from a bridge. Meanwhile of course the cops blame a midtown trail of destruction on Spider-Man, and wouldn't you know that Gwen's father is police chief Stacy ( Dennis Leary). Connors overdoses on lizard juice and expands into the hyper-violent Lizard, who goes on rampages and knocks cars off bridges with its tail. He has lost his right arm and obsesses about regenerating it by injecting himself with the genes of lizards, which can replace lost limbs (almost instantly, it appears). The screwball scientist is his dad's old partner, Dr. Finding his dad's old-fashioned briefcase in the attic, Peter comes across brilliant scientific work about cross-species interbreeding, and that leads him to the Manhattan skyscraper of Oscorp, your typical comic-book mega-corporation with a madman at the top. We learn how Peter lost his parents and came into the care of Aunt May ( Sally Field) and Uncle Ben ( Martin Sheen, replacing the late Cliff Robertson). The origin story takes at least an hour to tell, and I enjoyed that, because it seems to me that CGI superhero films often go on autopilot during their big action climaxes. This is the first Spider-Man who can leap off a skyscraper and make us wonder if he has a plan in mind. He's not above showoff stunts in high school and takes chances with his newfound superpowers. That's partly because Garfield's take on Spidey is sometimes a few strands short of a web. Gwen, his classmate and girlfriend ( Emma Stone, " The Help"), is a well-grounded female who needs some persuasion to bond with Peter. His key quality is likability, which he shares with his predecessor, Tobey Maguire. Parker is played by Andrew Garfield (" Never Let Me Go"), who at 28 looks too old to be in high school, but then movie teenagers usually do.
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