nothing to write home about

Rating: Null/10 (12 August 2002)

I'm not a big fan of comic adaptation, so my expectations weren't that high. Anyhow I must admit that the film was appealing, fast moving, well directed and with amazing SFX. Certainly it was miles above the dull adaptation of Batman or the phoney storylines of Superman. Overall acting was much of muchness: apart from Willem Dafoe's outstanding performance, living up to our usual expectation, the choice of Tobey Maguire as main character was preposterous. Gloomy and wooden in his acting, Maguire is the weakest point of the film. On the schmaltzy side was Kirsten Dunst, but we can forgive her, she's the only note of genuine feminility in the film. I can recommend the film to everybody likes enjoying zany plots full of sensational SFX, but if you want to watch a "film"...that is another thing! I think it deserves a score of 6 out of 10.