Disappointing overall

Rating: 5/10 (14 May 2014)

The only really 'amazing' thing out of this title is the FX. Really impressive and expressive also. The capture of Electro's and Spiderman's movement during the final fight is really on-point and it feels as real as it could be.
+ Plot: However, it seems like that's all the efforts the crew wanted to put in. The overall concept of the plot is pretty typical (which is not essentially bad but not really that outstanding either), however the way the director and the screenwriter attempted to expand it is horrible. At times it feels like the screenwriter simply jotted down a couple of notes of things that he wanted to put into the script then just patch them up in a very awkward way. Basically there was no SIGNIFICANT climax and the plot just wandered off most of the time. The conflict between the protagonist (Spiderman) and the antagonists (Green Goblin/Electro) somehow is not intensified to the point that they would really hold an urge to kill/stop each other. It's just like the Director was saying "Hey Spiderman and Electro, you guys have the power to make a fight, so just go ahead and do it". The pre-ending is just straight out terrible as it serves no real purpose. The death of Gwen basically means nothing at all (unless it's intentional by the Director to open up something else in the next franchise, but personally I don't think so).
Quality: 3/10
+ Acting: I like Emma Stone for what she did in Crazy, Stupid, Love and Superbad and she does seem to be a much capable actress than what she did in this movie. For some reason, she seems to be off-track with this character, while Gwen is supposed to be an independent, strong-willed and yet emotional character, Emma just delivered an average amount of those. Compared to what Kirsten Dunst did with Mary Jane, Emma totally fell short in what she has done. 5/10
I don't really understand the decision behind casting Jamie Foxx for the role of Electro. Yes he's a decent actor and all but it feels like he's not the man for the job. He tried to portray an kind of anti-social nerdy guy, but seriously he doesn't really have a face for it. It's like you try to put Chris Rock in one of those teenage romance dramas, it simply doesn't fit. 2/10
I don't have much impression on Andrew Garfield and Dane DeHane because it feels their shortcomings are not actually from their acting, but from a really weak plot that doesn't really stress them enough. For a superhero movie, whether you want to put the main character through a roller-coaster of climaxes of emotions (as in Dark Knight) or in the middle of an epic battle (Captain America: The Winter Soldier). Marc Webb wanted to do both, but it turned out that he failed in both of the fields. And the excessive amount of supposedly-humorous jokes and taunting that Spiderman threw around is just plain annoying. They might be good for some other characters like Hancock or Flash, but not in this case. 4/10 Same for Dane, he did seem to put a lot of effort in portraying a desperate young man crumbling under the immense pressure of running the biggest corporation in the world and trying to find a way to cure his disease. But since Marc Webb were unsure whether to put him in the front or in the back-line, all he did was just a bit of this and that.4/10
Overall I would give this title a 4/10, mostly thanks to the amazing visual effects that were employed. However, since such thing is so common in mainstream movies nowadays, Marc Webb really does have a lot to prove that he really knows how to handle such a massive-budget movie.