



The clumsy camera means it's difficult to see around corners or where you're supposed to crawl or jump or what bad-guys you're supposed to not get shot by. The arcade-style play can involve having to rewatch cutscenes and narration over and over again as you try to get the level right. He even has Stan “the Man” Lee offering narration at the beginnings of each level! Unfortunately, what he doesn't have are decent camera angles or a robust quality assurance inspection. Spider-Man has wall-crawling, web-slinging action, super-strength, and even his spidey-senses in this arcade-style adventure beat-em-up. Spider-Man shows a bit of promise and comes close to being up to the task. It's better than any other marvel ship that comes to my mind and thus just made the ending so satisfying for me.Super-hero games are always difficult: you want to include challenge to the players, but you want the hero to still feel “super” in the hands of the player. Something about their relationship connected and really made me think they were destined to be together.

The second thing, really what stood out about this movie is the chemistry between Gwen and Parker. Andrew Garfield got the Spider-Man half right - he captured the clever and witty personality of Spider-Man better than Maguire did. The swinging action is still the only movie that fully captures the agility of Spider-Man (the newer MCU ones don't really have these action shots) and the fight scenes are so cleverly made. There are things that don't work in this movie - personally, Peter Parker as a skate kid didn't do it for me, a couple unsolved plots, and Uncle Ben (where was the famous line?) but there were good things too The action and design of this movie was phenomenal. Honestly, it was better than what I thought it was, but definitely one of the weaker Spider-Man movies. So when I watched this movie for the first time (way after it had come out), I was under the impression that it was a pretty forgettable movie by the Marvel fandom and I just needed to watch it so I could understand what would happen in No Way Home.
