Ranking The Best Movie In Every Major Comic Book Franchise

22. The Amazing Spider-Man

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Andrew Garfield deserved much better as Spider-Man, with his lead performance and the chemistry generated with co-star Emma Stone are easily the highlight of Sony's misguided attempt at rebooting the web-slinging superhero.

The sequel became so focused on trying to hammer home the point that there was a cinematic universe in the works that it forgot to tell a decent story or show much interest in what was happening in the movie people had actually paid to see, and announcing release dates for The Amazing Spider-Man 3 and 4 before the second instalment had arrived turned out to be foolish in hindsight.

The Lizard as the villain might have seemed a little out of place given the approach to the rest of the movie, but The Amazing Spider-Man was about as solid as you would expect from a reboot that was obligated to hit so many familiar beats that we'd seen just a decade previously.

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