Brutal

Rating: 2/10 (5 May 2007)

This installation of the popular comic was unbelievably bad.
As with many other action movies in the past they tried to up the plot and downplay the action in hopes of creating a sequel that can be seen as something of substance. Basically what you're left with in this case is about 2 hours of soap opera grade acting and around a half hour of combined action.
Not only that but many guy on guy crying scenes, pretty much everyone in the movie cries at least once, peter parker at least 8 times and with really odd contorted faces during the crying which only leaves the audience laughing. Then there's this whole part where peter embraces his 'dark side' unfortunately it seems his dark side is from the 70's and john Travolta, so you ask yourself, what does he do when he turns to the dark side; hit the bottle, maybe a little killing...nope...strutting down the new York streets Saturday Night Fever style, shooting from the hip and air humping...oh yahhh. Oh and lets not forget the eyeliner, fyi, Toby Maguire Emo, not so great.
All together it was massively horrible, the entire theater continuously laughed at how bad it actually was. For the first hour, nothing happened at all till the green goblin jr made an appearance on what looked to be a badly done up snowboard with rockets and cpu fans attached to it.
Seriously...save yourself the money, I saw this movie at 11:30 at night after a half dozen beers and it still wasn't' good. This is a DVD kinda movie and even then, it may not even be worth it. And oh joy, they're apparently making a fourth.