It may not be PERFECT but at least it's truer to it's source

Rating: 8/10 (4 May 2014)

I would take two minutes of a Norman Osborn whose every word to his son drips with hate and disgust and is capable of controlling his company and a vast network of other elements over a Norman Osborn who is weak,whiny,oblivious and ineffectual all throughout two hours. Electro was done pitch perfectly. A nobody who got stepped on most of his life getting virtually infinite power and going on a power trip. I'll take Dane Dehaan's mutant Evil Ed Goblin over dime store plastic Goblin or Harry on a flying skateboard any day. And I'd RATHER have it NOW than wait an entire ARC for it only to get screwed in the end. I thought that Rhino was perfect in the spot they gave him. He's a blustering fourth tier idiot of a villain. How big a role do you EVER expect him to play!? Andrew Garfield is more like Spider-Man AND Peter Parker than Tobey Maguire EVER was. Tobey Peter: Empty headed neanderthal whose only solution to everything was punch the bad guy in the face until he says uncle(which is literally how EVERY movie in that series ended). Andrew Peter: Scientific genius who invents and upgrades his own equipment to compensate for an enemy's powers. Emma Stone really embodied Gwen Stacy and the writers give nods to even the smallest parts of her arc(her at one point going to England). Her death scene was definitely as impactful in this movie as in the comics when it happened. It was no more a jarring tone change than it was when it happened in that issue. Dane Dehaan gives Harry the easy charm Harry is known for mixed with an air of moral ambiguity that keeps him interesting until he becomes the Green Goblin. His later desperation is TOTALLY believable in one who is close to death. I cannot praise Chris Cooper enough for doing so much with so little. I would take his Norman Osborn over Dafoe's any day. All in all this movie might have flaws but it's flaws don't compare to all the dissatisfying things about the first series. So I'll take it.