one of the worst superhero movies ever

Rating: 1/10 (9 January 2020)

Of course there are other contenders, like Steel and Fant4stic... but this movie had a high budget and a dedicated fanbase and it still was a failure by all definitions of the word. The writing was terrible and awkward, as if the actors were improvising every line without knowing what the plot was about, and for some strange reason characters say the same lines twice in a row which is very irritating. Harry Osborn just shows up without even being mentioned in the first film, and the audience is supposed to just go along with him and Peter being best friends since childhood... so there's that. Also we're thrown into some hackneyed, underdeveloped subplot about Harry trying to steal Spiderman's blood to cure himself of a genetic disease that his father kept secret from him until he was on his death bed because he hates him I guess? Apparently this disease makes green goo leak out of your hairline and gums, which I guess was one of those comic book plots that would be really difficult to adapt in a movie without it appearing ridiculous because it appears very, very ridiculous. Another really dumb subplot is Peter's father leaving him a big ol' scavenger hunt to solve in order to learn whatever. I forgot what is at the end of the scavenger hunt because the last "clue" is a coin that Peter puts in an abandoned subway terminal, causing a car that his dad mechanically rigged to come up out of a secret hole in the ground, and I think there was a working laboratory inside or something really stupid like that. Oh yeah and Electro is in this movie too, not the Electro from the comics but just some weird guy who has a random love/hate relationship with both Spiderman and attention, and gets free orthodontic work from some electric eels (I could make this stuff up if I suffered enough brain damage, but I assure you it all really happens in the movie). They even try to shoehorn in the Sinister Six as sequel-fuel, which made me laugh while watching this because nearly every scene in this movie was a nail in the coffin of Garfield's turn as Spiderman. The only decent part of this movie is when Peter is crying over Gwen's dead body, then it immediately reverts back to its true form: a terrible, clumsy, boring, awkward mess of a film.