Absolutely Raimi, really really good!

Rating: 8/10 (8 June 2002)

Sam Raimi has made some very good (The "Evil Dead"-Trilogy, "A Simple Plan" and "Darkman", which had a similar ending like Spiderman) and a few bad films ("The Quick And The Dead" and that romance with Kevin Costner) but one must say that Raimi's style is unique and simply cool. He was a perfect choice to do this movie, like Tim Burton was the only director who could do Batman justice. Hopefully, Raimi will become part of Hollywood's first league now. It's just so cool that he started with splatter movies and now knocks-out Star Wars! (see Peter Jackson, who made films like "Bad Taste" and "Braindead" and now the ultimate Blockbuster "Lord Of The Rings") Tobey McGuire and Kirsten Dunst were wonderful and William DaFoe proved once again that he can do everything from Jesus to the Green Goblin. Spiderman surely is an example for a well-done blockbuster and from my mind it's the best Marvel/DC movie done so far (with a new "Superman" -movie starring Brendan Fraser yet to come). How cool would that be if the Batman-story would be newly told and then the 3 superheros Super-, Bat- and Spiderman would get one movie together? Hm, well maybe I'm just one of those people who like the idea of "RoboCop vs. Terminator" and "Freddy vs. Jason" films.