Slightly redeemable mess

Rating: 6/10 (23 March 2015)

Wasn't bad. Not great either. There is a lot that I didn't like. Dane DeHaan was BAD (remember Emo Peter from Spider-Man 3? Well this is Emo Harry)...I'm not sure how much is his fault and how much was either poor writing or poor direction...either way his performance was laughable. The spectacle of the action scenes is really something, but they get almost completely bogged down by the pointless use of slow-mo. Seriously, it felt like there was more slow-mo in this movie then there was in the THE MATRIX. And lastly... Paul Giamatti is absolutely WASTED in this. It's basically a 1 or 2 minute cameo that's only there to set up the next movie. And his Russian accent is totally incomprehensible. I guess I should say what I liked about it too... Garfield and Stone are really good together. Their chemistry is more or less what makes the movie tolerable. Jamie Foxx's Electro is cool I suppose, but the reasoning behind him becoming bad is pretty silly.
So all-in-all it has more in common with Raimi's Spider-Man 3...which is pretty disappointing, but then again A LOT of these comic book movies have been feeling (to me anyway) like they're all the same. If you're a comic fan or a fan of the character then I'm sure you'll get some enjoyment out of this. Probably much more than I did anyway. Overall I'm teetering somewhere between a 6 and 6.5 out of 10.