the biggest anti climax since the phantom menace

Rating: Null/10 (16 July 2004)

****spoilers ahead******
I am furious, never has a movie disapointed me so much since the 'power rangers movie' otherwise known as 'the phantom menace'. Lets make this clear, spiderman 2 is not a bad movie, it is a good movie...but...we are not looking for good here, we are looking for superb. The first spiderman was well scripted, acted, shot, edited, scored and left the audience with a feel good factor that lasted days no matter how many times before you had seen it before. In a word it was superb.
Now spiderman 2 is good, the action sequences are cool and the train fight is some of the best effects ever seen...but...the acting is at times awful (toby seems to have given up trying and also seems to be aging VERY badly, Dunst looked bored throughout, Franco was okay but was given little to do except look angry and the only one holding the lot together was Molina and he even seemed to be struggling with the dialouge). The story was boring and the message so expertly crafted in the first movie was simply repeated (over and over) in this one till it go boring. This movie does not have an ending, it has three, all too long and badly paced and DeFoe pops up for a cameo in which he has none of the fire he had in the first. Spiderman reveals himself alot in the movie!!! In comic book film the hero being unmasked is a big thing, it happens four times in this one, i mean come on Raimi!
This film is supposed to be the middle of three so obviously the story needs to be left open for the third...but...a little sub plot that concludes in this one would have been nice, a least a good one. I only hope they do better in third or the magic of the first film will forever be tainted by the other two. Please replace Maguire, he clearly has no dedication to the prioject(s).