About an hour too long

Rating: 6/10 (22 January 2015)

Whoever was in charge of this mess needs to never make another superhero film again. I got so angry watching this because even I, knowing nothing about film making, knew that so many scenes should have been edited out or not filmed at all.
Much of it felt improvised and badly planned and I cannot believe that in this day and age, Hollywood is still making movies with an all-white cast and a token black (/blue) villain. At one point, another villain actually called him his 'fairy godmother'(!)
The script wasn't rubbish but it needed editing. Instead, every single idea, line and scenario suggested during development was included in this ridiculously overlong film.
The only saving grace was the action but that got extremely boring because it kicked in from the very beginning so there was no room for progression. It's like Hollywood just said: cute kid, love stuff, action scenes every 5 minutes, a few bad guys (one black/blue) and we'll make a few hundred million.
I'm not impressed. I've already forgotten half of the film (the rest will be gone by morning).
Tangent-rant: What is the point of a Spider-Man who cannot shoot webs out of his wrists (or body in general)? Without that ability, any villain could create that technology and Spider-Man would no longer be unique. This Spider-Man only has strength, speed and sticky feet. That does not a Spider-Man make I'm afraid. The only justification for the name Spider-Man is having some spider-specific feature built in which he currently does not have.
Andrew Garfield and Emma Stone obviously had fun together but I only saw the spark between 'them' and not between their characters. This might be because Andrew Garfield has zero screen presence.
I don't think it's worth more than a 5 but the effects were great and I wasn't totally bored throughout so I'll give it an extra point.
6/10