Not bad... could have been much better.

Rating: 6/10 (28 April 2014)

I'll address the elephant in the room now... It was OK, yes it could have been better, but some things were not too bad. Please read on, and fair warning spoilers ahead.
So a big thing in this movie was people felt there where too many villains. I don't feel that it had too many, there were 3 on paper, but in reality it was actually 2 at a time. You start off with "new" Goblin, and then add Sandman into the mix... then once Goblin is sidelined, you then get Venom. And let me address the villains. "new" Goblin was a sad version of Green Goblin of the first one, there was no crazy, the updated glider was a hoverboard on steroids (and still had those dumbass spike... did he learn NOTHING) and no goblin mask. I honestly would have rather have seen Harry wearing the full goblin armor from the first movie. Or paint it goldish, make him Hobgoblin (I am aware Harry Osborne was NOT the hobgoblin)...the new version just seemed so generic.
Second... Sandman... Thomas Haden Church... holy crap... nailed the look to the T... HOWEVER... they made his super sympathetic... like your rooting for him at some points more than Spiderman. Which is a big contrast from his comic book counterpart... but I digress, that happens a lot on comic movies... especially this one.
Lastly... Venom... ohh... the humanity... If you wanted to see the annoying bitch version on Venom... well this is your movie. The difference between Spiderman and Venom physically alone, is like Max and Mike Tyson from Punch-Out... instead in the movie they are the same size. Venom is supposed to a murderous psychopath... that stalks Spiderman, screwing with him left and right... in the movie, he calls him right out. He could have been much better if he was introduced halfway through the movie rather than last minute. They wasted the villain... similar to Two-Face in The Dark Knight.
Now the rest of the movie... the story itself is fairly solid... but the dialog and "Emo" Peter were lame. If "Emo" Peter was more hardass then douchebag, he would have been better.
The movie had potential to live up to Spiderman 2, but due to the lackluster Villains, and poor plot scenarios hurt this more than anything... and I don't blame too many villains, I blame the writing more than anything cause a group of villains, when written right works fine. Seem my Dark Knight review for that explanation.