A 'good' movie. Not a 'good' spidey

Rating: 6/10 (3 May 2007)

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Let me begin by saying that I am a spiderman fan. Even since I was a young boy about twenty years ago, I've always kept in touch with Spiderman and its various comic adaptations. More or less its had its own variations but some things remained the same, and in my honest opinion, gave our hero its unique taste as compared to other super beings. Making Spiderman more 'mortal', more 'human' in comparison to other famous heroes like Superman and Batman. Villains, were always very important to Spidey's life. Most importantly, Harry's GG and Venom were always his arch-rivals in the comics. Both due to power clashing, but also due to psychological reasons.
The reason for this small intro, is to better explain to me why this movie would be fan to watch as a 'standalone' adaptation, had we not seen the previous two spideys. I think it suffered from the same thing X3 suffered. Too much to tell, too little time, too propagandistic at times that does not befit a hero like spidey (too many messages, too many notations, too much patriotism). Worse of all, it took Spiderman life's most important characters, like MJ, Harry, and Venom and minored them to sidekick level. the movie builds, and builds, and builds up quite efficiently but then it runs out of time. And hurriedly throws everything together. Not explaining a thing about venom neutralizing spider's sense. Not a thing about the depth of Harry's confused state for Peter
(never in my knowledge did such an ending come on Harry. Instead, the two always mind-twisted one another using each one's past traumatic experiences)
Spidey's adaptation of his darker self was a bliss though, and Jona was amazing as always. Pity they didn't' give him more time.
Overall, a 6/10. Too cliché, and too shallow at certain points, but still a spiderman. And at certain moments, performances save the day.