Enuff already with the sympathetic villains

Rating: 9/10 (17 January 2009)

I have to admit I watch this because my kids like the action scenes. So I've seen the action scenes 50 times and some of the plot stuff zero. Bryce Howard (Ron's daughter) is a very very appealing and talented Gwen Stacy, the rest of the cast is spot on as in all the Marvel productions. And the action scenes are well done, I find Venom a little tough to stomach but the Sandman stuff is spectacular. Now to the complaints - Sandman can't do all this evil stuff and have a heart of gold (like Doc Ock). I'm sorry, I'm just not buying it, it kills what credibility is left in these things. If they're going to do that they can't make the bad guys so evil when they're on their rampage, they have to choose. Plus they already used the killed-Peter's-uncle-theme in Spiderman 1, their attempt to recycle that one with Sandman is so painful, and by the way hasn't MJ been the hostage in every Spiderman movie climax? Isn't somebody supervising the story or script ?! On the plus side Franco does a really nice job with Greenie Jr, so good that saying goodbye to him has to be a mistake. So the characters and acting are good, the fights are good, but some of the plot stuff is just plain LAME even for this genre.