"Amazing" Spider-Man hardly amazing

Rating: Null/10 (5 May 2002)

Spider-Man has a new arch-nemesis, and it isn't a goblin, octopus, or crime boss. It's Screenwriter David Koepp, who has botched more movies than I can recall. Overall, I enjoyed the movie, however there are a few things which I wish my spider sense had warned me about. I have to give Koepp credit for developing the character of Peter Parker. He did so throughout the movie so by the end I connected with the character, and Tobey Maguire did an excellent job portraying the web-slinger and his alter ego. But that is the extent of credit I can allow myself to give to Koepp. I had to draw the line at the Green Goblin. While Dafoe played an excellent Norman Osborn, he wasn't given much to work with in regards to the Green Goblin. The character's lines were stereotypical, underdeveloped and down-right boring. The same went for Mary Jane(Kirsten Dunst); Harry Osborn (James Franco), and the rest of the cast. My final verdict? It's worth seeing once in the theater, but this spdiey-fan will wait for the movie to swing into video stores before watching it again.