Spider, hit it with a baseball bat

Rating: 6/10 (21 June 2002)

I hate dissing Sam Raimi But He has become far to sensible and that is the problem with with the film, it's has none of the fun that I was hoping it would have. The film is very well made but again with most film currently being made the CGI effects are at times ropy. The performances are good and some of the action is great. The main problem with the film is it sags in the middle. I have talked to several spiderman fans who have wanted to kill me when I told them what I thought of the film and none have been able to disagree with me.
The film had tried vary hard to be adult and that is recommendable but its the grown up bits which slow the film down. The romance scenes just don't work, which is a pity but maybe I'm just a action junkie. The other thing that annoyed me was the lack of comic lines which spiderman is famous for. Hopefully they will start to come in the next film.
Well, I hope the next film is better cos this one wasn't great.