Muddled Plot and Awkward Dialogue

Rating: 5/10 (4 May 2014)

First, let me just say that the first 20 minutes of this film are fantastic. We finally get to see the Spider-Man from the comics that not one single movie of either trilogy has shown. I loved that. Then the film went South in a hurry.
The next hour is spent introducing characters, and not in a very convincing way, I might add. Why so much time spent on introductions? Because this movie has more plot lines than spider web has geometric shapes. The plot is so muddled with so many different things and there is nothing tying them all together. There is no central theme, nothing for me as the viewer to grasp on to to carry me from one end of the film to the other. It's really a mess.
The other thing that turned me off was the awkward dialogue. It was poorly introduced and unconvincingly written. For example, there is absolutely no time spent developing the relationship between Peter Parker and Aunt May, but all of a sudden in the middle of the film there's this big emotional breakthrough which is meaningless because it hasn't been set up properly. And many of the exchanges had me putting my face in my hands and groaning.
What's the one redeeming quality of the film? The web slinging. It was the best of any Spider-Man film to date.