Slightly disappointing

Rating: 7/10 (12 May 2002)

Could have been the best superhero movie ever made...and came very close, but just seemed to lose steam. The initial hour or so, when Peter is discovering his powers, is excellent, but once he puts the suit on the movie seems to run out of gas. Add to that incredibly bad dialogue, poor costume design for the Green Goblin, a very bad performance as Mary Jane by Kirsten Dunst and inadequate character-building of Uncle Ben (why should we feel Peter's grief when it is never shown that the two are that close?) and you have just another summer blockbuster...entertaining, but very forgettable.