Annoying and not very exciting

Rating: Null/10 (31 August 2014)

Time for Spider Man again, this time a long and boring lovedrama.
What strikes you from the very beginning is the long and unengaging dialogues. And the relationship drama that seems to have been taken directly from an MTV ducusoap. Peter Parker and Gwen is together, they break up, they are together again. In the end it's like you want to scream out "I really don't care, give me some action please". And aunt May isn't the usual nice and easy to like character we are used to see in the comics. Here she is annoying and irritating and take up way too much space.
Best actor in this movie is clearly Dane DeHaan who can look really devilish sometimes, but there isn't much for him to work with.
I don't know if Marc Webb deliberately tried to make it into a teen love drama or if it's just badly written, but in comparison to the super hero sagas we have been fed lately on the screen, this is sub par in every way. Way too long between the action sequences and taking the story's very thin red thread in consideration the length of the movie could easily be cut in half.
The special effects is good and well made, but the action sequences are much to local. They take place in specific areas, between 1 villain and 1 Spider and never really reaches the heights you have seen in other Spider Man movies. And then of course it's the constant bullet time effects whenever Spider Man does anything, which is nice the first 10 times but gets a bit dull after a while.
So all in all..a dull and not very fun move super hero movie.