Hope it is the last one

Rating: 3/10 (25 November 2007)

I don't know why I still watch this series of underwhelming films. As in the best tradition of superhero films, they go slowly downhill from the first film, and then start accelerating towards the depths of Batman & Robin, Rocky 5 and so on. This was a muddled adventure. Half of the movie resembled teenage tantrums with superpowers added in. The other half had a mish-mash of perplexing action scenes. Almost every scene is predictable. Aunt May is not so much a character as a string of clichÃ©s. I don't understand what happened to the Sandman - why didn't he sit down and chat to Peter Parker earlier and save the need for the last hour of the film? Does he know that he can fulfil his aim by voting for the Democrats next year for universal health care? Evil/Emo Peter Parker was just bad, not evil. Three villains is a silly idea, and not one of them is memorable or outstanding. Hostage scenes, friend/family-in-hospital scenes, innocent-victim-being-rescued scenes - all been done before and have even been done in the Spiderman series itself!! In the end, I haven't bothered to structure this review and make it sound coherent, much like the scriptwriters for the movie itself.