Less than amazing

Rating: 6/10 (1 May 2014)

Saw the movie about half a week ago. And it hurts me to say, this one suffers from the same problems as Spider man 3 did. Although, some things improved, I was annoyed at the way the villains were handled. We know from the trailers, there's 3 of them (while in fact only 2 actually had some screen time). And yet, it would have been so much better with only one villain. Electro's reasons for terrorizing the city were stupid and childish, the Green Goblin was incredibly cool, and yet he wasn't the focus of the movie, so there was not nearly enough of him. None of the mentioned characters received the attention they deserved in fact, their screen time, story was very lacking due to time limitations. This was, however, the director's decision and it served the movie and the fans in all the wrong ways. The action was cool however, the visuals were stunning. I can say nothing bad about that.
And yet the structure of the movie itself was kinda of a mess too. The scenes of life of Peter and Spider-man were constantly interrupting each other. Ultimately it didn't feel like a properly powerful story anymore, just a collection of dialog and action scenes that lead to nothing. This jumping back and forth could have been replaced with more character development for the villains.
I am sincerely hoping this movie receives enough criticism for the director to take notice and make improvements in the next installment.
For a spider-man fan, there's still plenty to see and enjoy (just for the sake of seeing the beloved wall-crawler on the big screen again). The regular movie lovers, however, should not get their expectations too high.
Through the interviews it seemed that Mark Webb had taken into account and learned from the problems Spider man 3 had. Well.. I would like to respectfully disagree.