Ahem... 7/10 points with reservation (major spoilers ahead)

Rating: Null/10 (13 July 2004)

I really shouldn't go on commenting this movie yet. I should wait after a second viewing to get a few things straight, but lacking better things to do at the moment, here goes...
So, here we have it. One of the biggest, many say THE biggest movie event of the year, 2004. Saw it and liked it as much as the next man, but in the big elements there are some little things that lately have really started to bother me. - The action. Still trying a little too hard to be the coolest and wildest ride there is. Since this is literally a comic-book action/adventure movie, most of it hits mark, but sometimes it gets (dare I say it) laughable. At some points it also seems to control, rather than support, the story.

The Villain. Molina is terrific, but didn't we already see this guy in a different suit in the first movie? A mad scientist who falls victim for his own ground-breaking invention after putting himself as a guinea-pig? And in the end he "becomes good again". Also the "anticlimax" rings a bell...

Stars and supporting actors work well, but the rest of N.Y. doesn't quite strike real. People are too "good". A pat on the back after 9/11, but this movie isn't supposed for the people of N.Y. only...

I'll save you from the rest of my nag-list. On the upside, this movie sets an example for a smooth and harmonic, well-rolling, feel-good, movie. The actors are great and in popcorn-terms it's all grade A+ Entertainment with a capital E. Most likely this will be looked as the "Empire strikes back" of Spiderman - trilogy: the one with the most multi-layered characterization. HOWEVER, if instead this will be looked as the movie that gave sequels a bad name again, you all remember that it was me who pointed out the faults of this movie first :)