Disappointing venture into big budget filmmaking by Raimi.

Rating: 5/10 (13 June 2002)

When I first heard the great Sam Raimi, director of the "Evil Dead" films, was going to direct Spider Man I was ecstatic. Possibly the greatest comic book ever was going to be directed by one of the horror genres top directors. However, this being Raimi's first big budget film, Spider Man falls flat on its face. I will give credit to John Dykstra for the amazing effects, but the story seems slapped together. Plus, the ending is a sort of anticlimax. Batman is the real way to make a comic book film, keep the atmosphere true to the comic, make the characters interesting, and keep it unpredictable at all times. Spider Man was predictable, routine, and overall, dull. Hopefully the second film will get it right.
Rating: 6/10