Boring!! How did they make Spider-man Boring?

Rating: 4/10 (5 May 2014)

They actually managed to make Spider-man boring!!! Most of the movie is spent on scenes and relationships that are, at best, tangential to the plot. An efficient version of the movie could have been done in a half- hour TV special. We spent most of the movie waiting for something, ANYTHING INTERESTING TO HAPPEN! While Spidey is usually the most conflicted/introspective of the major superheroes, he is still an action hero. The result was exactly opposite of 2011's "Thor", in which the normally flat and boring character had an engaging story.
The writers apparently used Lord of the Rings: Return of the King, as a template, but decided that the 42 minutes and 37 seconds of Aragorn / Awren romance was the best part of that movie. So, they expanded those scenes and made the movie that combines the worst elements of Spider-man, Return of the King, and Waiting For Godot (a play in which the main characters hang themselves because they are bored).
The only reason I give it 4 stars is that 1. it had decent special effects, 2. it set up future movies (anybody recognize Felicity Jones' character), 3. the plot, while boring, was comprehensible and internally consistent.