Spiderman: losing your innocence - and a movie

Rating: 1/10 (14 May 2007)

What is it with our American friends and their own 'mythological' heritage? Why is it that only such movies as the first Batman or Batman - the Beginning seems to succeed both artistically and commercially? Because the heroes were - whatever those movies' other merits - at least taken with a modicum of seriousness.
But not here. Not with a Peter Parker who is simply incapable of playing the darker side of his character. Not with a girlfriend who you want to be killed and buried within her first 5 minutes. And not with villains who turn out to be so misunderstood that both of them deserve to die in a most noble manner? Aaaarch!
I've seen my share of bad movies but I have to go back a very long way to remember such a load of clichés, so many holes in a script and - dare I say it? - so many mediocre CGI-shots. This is not a movie made by Hollywood. This is a movie made by bankers & accountants.