A dull grey boring affair...

Rating: 1/10 (9 July 2004)

Despite all its accolades, perhaps some deserved, I have yet to see any for Spiderman 2's pure entertainment value. Before anything else, I was expecting a good action/adventure superhero film with cool action (fight scenes etc.), thrills, and suspense. Instead, this movie is incredibly slow-paced, has minimal fight scenes between Octavius and Spiderman, and in total, they only constitute maybe 5 percent of the film's duration. Moreover, the way Octavius perishes can only be described as pathetic. I grant that there are some funny moments and that character development is in-depth, but this movie feels more like a drama than a superhero flick. I seem to remember that the first Batman was masterful in its mix of both elements.