Andrew Garfield is a terrific Peter Parker and he makes this sweet, likeable teenager a believable nice guy. The High School stuff is really well done but the film takes forever to get into gear and when it does it is hampered by some decidedly average CGI action and a very poor villain. It's questionable whether it was necessary to revisit the origin story yet again but to spend so much time on it was a big mistake. On top of that we have the usual Hollywood guff about absent fathers to give the whole thing some kind of gravitas.
There is some invention, I liked the web used as radar idea but the best parts of the film (where Parker discovers his powers) are rushed, badly thought through and inconsistent. It's not bad but it feels like it's all been done before and done much better.
