***3/10*** "aN HoNeST To GoD DiSaPoiNTMeNT"

Rating: 5/10 (18 June 2002)

Despite the hype to this film, it wasn't all that it's cracked upto to be. Columbia went through a heck of alot of caRe and expenditure to make sure that the movie was advertised as extensively as possible to ensure it's box office hits.
I listened to the soundtrack before I seen tne movie and had hoped to what I was expecting to be an worthy equal to that of Tim Burton's Batman, the more recent X-MEN movie. And considering it was coming from teh view of Sam Raimi (director of the previously banned Evil Dead, Evil Dead II: Dead By Dawn), I expected so much more. The writers didn't seem to get it, that theres as much adults who liek Spiderman as there is kids. Not forgetting that it's based on a 35 year old + superhero.
The action sequences score high, and I liked the way they adapted the Green Goblin's form into that of an electronic flight-suit instead of Green Rubber spandex, but there's too much of a love interest, and the story is written accordingly to the origional Green Goblin story, which is a spoiler for the sort of people who live and breave these comics die-hard. The whole story is just 99% predicatble. Who hasn't seen an American superhero movie that they had sussed from the opening. It's an honest to God disapointment, and a real pitty, because a title like Spiderman had the pottential to go as far as Batman did in 1989, had the script been giving good looking at. The writers rushed this script, as theve done with the sequel to this, which is supposed to feature 'Doctor Octopus.'
OK for a watch, but doesn't attempt to appeal to people over 13. ***3/10***