Good effects, but story way too thin

Rating: 1/10 (3 August 2002)

Granted, the movie deserves a few points for the effects. But the problem with making a movie about Spiderman is that you are bound by the frame of the original comics. You can't go too far, so the storyline is fixed. The story takes one of his many enemies from the comics. He has to fight this ultimate bad guy, nearly looses, and I don't want to spoil it for you, but he gets up and wins in the end (where have we seen that before?). Of course we've seen that genre before, but this film lacks everything original. Bat Man, Superman, Robocop: this movie is just more of the same. But Spiderman stands apart in that it has nothing going for it whatsoever: not an interesting story, no incredible effects, no humour.
The film ends unfinished and unsatisfying, with an opening for follow-ups whenever the Hollywood-producers are short on cash in the near future. You'll miss nothing if you don't see this film.