"In the web of love"

Rating: 2/10 (4 May 2007)

Why is this a chick flick? I'm quite positive most people go to a Spiderman movie to see cool action and awesome special effects. Not that a decent amount of emotion could not usefully support character development and give the movie depth... and stuff... but getting constantly bombarded with personal problems of the supporting cast and totally unnecessarily conflicts, with a sad score blaring frequently, what's the point in that? I want spider sense tingling and uppercuts and flying martial arts web action. Does anyone seriously expect me to cry on a Spiderman movie? Hours go by without any kind of action, instead you have to suffer trough this: "Peter, why do you want to push me away from you?". I will not even go into the infamous emo-Peter-fever-dance- sequence, to leave room for the part when Eddie Brock kneels down in a church and asks Jesus (I repeat, that's Jesus Christ) to "KILL PETER PARKER". At that point I wouldn't have been surprised about Jesus descending from the cross to actuall battle Spiderman. Around the end, we also get a shot of Spiderman posing in front of a giant, waving American flag, that kind of did it for me and several other people in the cinema and it was all laughter from then on, the best part of the whole flick.
I was promised a darker and deeper Spiderman and what I got was a "f*ck- you" and a kick in the nuts. Well f*ck you too Mr. Raimi.
2/10