Terrible acting, worse plot, sometimes amusing it was so bad

Rating: 2/10 (12 May 2007)

I am rarely disappointed by mindless action movies, but this one was quite poor. The whole theater laughed whenever Tobey Maguire tried to do any emoting, many of the plot developments were completely inane, and frankly the action scenes weren't even that imaginative. As a friend of mine described the script, it was as if they had written it straight through in one sitting and done no editing - each line of dialog was trite and predictable.
As others have pointed out, perhaps the most significant problem with this movie was that it tried to include too many story lines, with three villains, Spider-man's love woes, etc. While each of these villains might have been worthwhile if they had time to develop, each was left seeming like a simple vehicle for more action sequences. I tend to think that the problem was not that too many villains led to a bad movie so much as that the writers were too uninspired to really come up with enough plot and dialog to flesh out any one character, so they just added more.
I know what you're thinking -- "Oh, I'll love it anyways! I love super hero movies!" -- No. Trust me. You won't.