Disappointing

Rating: 3/10 (5 May 2014)

I'm a big spiderman fan. When I heard that they were bringing electro into the mix I thought there would be a lot of action. There was indeed not. Let's start with the villains. While watching Rhino on the screen who by the way only receives about 4 minutes of the movies time was mocked the whole time and all of his lines felt like they had to voice over his entire scenes like he was speaking in Japanese or something. Then there was Electro which I felt was poorly scripted. He as Max Dillion, came across as a loner which was true, but a crazy one who made up spiderman as a friend having conversations with him in the mirror. It made it almost seem as though electro could have teamed up with him because all he wanted to do was be noticed, but they after one scene completely switched everything around and decided to change the characters personality. The plot with him was far away from the original intent that by the time we reach the end you don't care what happened to him. Then there was Harry, who was Peters best friend. They chose to skip over Norman Osborne all together and give them both a disease. That somehow kills Harry a lot faster than his father and Harry never notices until his father tells him. This sends him on a spiral for survival and doesn't really connect him to becoming the Green goblin except that he injects himself with spider venom and wants spiderman dead because he wouldn't give him his blood to cure him????? It's like you saying hey I want the salt shaker so that I may salt my food so it taste better. Your wife says no, I want you to live longer and not die of heart attack early. You say I'm going to kill you for that. Finally, Gwen's death, he struggles in the whole movie with wanting to keep her alive and finally she dies. I say finally because the issue of letting her die comes up about 20 times in the movie with drawn out dialogue that could have shortened the movie and not made Peter out to be so winy. Her death though was unnecessary I think that they wanted to kill her off to make room for Mary Jane Watson which which makes a small appearance in an email, but they could have just sent her off to oxford and had Peter stay behind, but decided to kill her in a way that made you go really that's it. He caught her and you killed you anyway. I'm sure many may disagree, but this is just how I felt about it. I love Spiderman and it was heart breaking to watch them destroy this movie when it had so much potential.