The Amazing Spider-Man is a 2012 American superhero film based on the Marvel Comics character Spider-Man and sharing the title of the character's longest-running comic book of the same name. It is the fourth to portray Spider-Man in film distributed by Columbia Pictures, Marvel Entertainment and Sony Pictures Entertainment and a reboot of the 2002-07 film trilogy preceding it, which was also distributed by Sony Pictures Entertainment. The film was directed by Marc Webb, written by James Vanderbilt, Alvin Sargent and Steve Kloves and stars Andrew Garfield as Peter Parker / Spider-Man, Emma Stone as Gwen Stacy, Rhys Ifans as Dr. Curtis Connors, Denis Leary as Captain George Stacy along with Martin Sheen and Sally Field as the uncle and aunt of Peter Parker, Ben Parker and May Parker.
The film tells the story of Peter Parker, a teenager from New York City
who becomes Spider-Man after being bitten by a genetically altered
spider. Parker must stop Dr. Curt Connors as a mutated Lizard from spreading a mutation serum to the city's human population.
A young Peter Parker discovers his father Richard Parker's study has been burgled. Gathering up hidden documents, Peter's parents take him to the home of his Aunt May (Sally Field) and Uncle Ben (Sheen), then mysteriously depart.
Years later, a teenaged Peter (Garfield) attends Midtown Science High School, where he is bullied by Flash Thompson (Zylka) and has caught the eye of the beautiful Gwen Stacy (Stone). At home, Peter finds his father's papers and learns he worked with fellow scientist Dr. Curt Connors (Ifans) at Oscorp. Sneaking into Oscorp, Peter enters a lab where a "biocable" is under development from genetically modified spiders, one of which bites him. On the subway ride home, he discovers that he has developed spider-like abilities.
After studying Richard's papers, Peter visits the one-armed Connors,
reveals he is Richard Parker's son and gives Connors his father's "decay
rate algorithm", the missing piece in Connors' experiments on
regenerating limbs. Connors is being pressed by his superior, Dr. Ratha (Khan), to devise a cure for the dying (but unseen) head of Oscorp, Norman Osborn.
In school, Peter gets into trouble after a basketball challenge with
Flash in which Peter accidentally shatters the backboard glass. His
uncle changes work shifts to meet with the principal and asks Peter to
replace him walking home with Aunt May that night. Peter gets distracted
and helps Connors regenerate the limb of a laboratory mouse. Peter's
failure causes an argument with his uncle and he leaves. At a nearby
deli, a cashier refuses to let Peter buy a chocolate milk since Peter is
two cents short; when a thief
suddenly raids the store, Peter indifferently observes. While searching
for Peter, Uncle Ben attempts to stop the thief and is killed. The
thief escapes as Peter finds Ben on the sidewalk.
Afterward, Peter uses his new abilities to hunt criminals matching
the killer's description. After a fall lands him inside an abandoned
gym, a luchador-wrestling poster inspires him to create a mask to hide his identity. He adds a spandex suit and builds mechanical devices to attach to his wrists to shoot a biocable "web". Peter accepts a dinner invitation from Gwen, where he meets and has a tense conversation with her father, police captain George Stacy (Leary), over Spider-Man's motives. After dinner, Peter reveals his identity to Gwen and they kiss.
After seeing success with the mouse using lizard DNA,
Ratha demands Connors begin human trials immediately if Osborn is to
survive. Connors refuses to rush the drug-testing procedure and put
innocent people at risk. Ratha fires Connors and decides to test
Connors' serum at a VA hospital under the guise of a flu shot.
In an act of desperation, Connors tries the formula on himself. After
passing out, he awakens to find his missing arm has regenerated.
Discovering that Ratha is on his way to the VA hospital, Connors, whose
skin is turning green and scaly, goes to intercept him. By the time he
gets to the Williamsburg Bridge
Connors has become a violent hybrid of lizard and man, tossing cars,
including Ratha's, over the side of the bridge. Peter, now calling
himself Spider-Man, snatches each falling car with his web-lines.
Spider-Man suspects Connors is Lizard and unsuccessfully confronts
the creature in the sewers. Lizard learns Spider-Man's real identity via
the name on an abandoned camera and follows Peter to school where they
fight. In response, the police start a manhunt for both Spider-Man and
Lizard. The police corner Spider-Man and Captain Stacy discovers that he
is really Peter. Lizard plans to make all humans lizard-like by
releasing a chemical cloud from Oscorp's tower, to eliminate the
weaknesses he believes plague humanity. Spider-Man confronts and battles
the Lizard on the roof of Oscorp Tower and eventually disperses an
antidote cloud instead, restoring Connors and earlier victims to normal,
but not before Lizard mortally wounds Captain Stacy. Before his death,
Captain Stacy makes Peter vow to keep Gwen safe by leaving her out of
it. Peter initially does so by avoiding to go to Captain Stacey's
funeral, but later at school suggests to Gwen he may see her again.
In a closing-credits scene,
Connors, in a prison cell, speaks with a man in the shadows who asks if
Peter knows the truth about his father. Connors replies, "No", and
demands Peter be left alone before the man disappears
Cast and characters:
- Emma Stone as Gwen Stacy
- Martin Sheen as Ben Parker
- Sally Field as May Parker
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