Could have been done well... But wasn't

Rating: 2/10 (21 December 2014)

Well I wanted to love this movie but the screenplay and general direction of the series has major issues.
1st. OK... In the first film in this franchise... spiderman had a serious vendetta to find the tattooed man who shot his Uncle. Which was dropped as soon as the Lizard storyline went into full swing ( pun intended). This storyline was not even hinted at in ASM2 !
2nd. Casting was very good for both spiderman and Gwen (love Emma Stone)! But the screenwriters should have carried the Gwen/goblin arch across the initial trilogy thereby giving the viewer the real emotional response to Gwen's death!
3rd. Peter and Harry's relationship. Totally ridiculous! Buddy's at 7 years old hadn't seen each other for 10 formative years, one son of multi millionaire and the other working class. They meet again and are best buds! Who rights this stuff? Doesn't make any sense!
4th. Villains... Harry as Goblin? Nope... Stick with Norman right from the start. Plenty of time to develop Harry... but nooo! Electro... Meh. Trying to hard to have it both ways and have a villain that you can sympathize with. Rhino? Love Paul Giomati but he obviously didn't take the role seriously and belonged more in Batman and Robin than this movie but there is that screenplay again. Not really his fault if that was how he was directed.
All in all a complete failure. It's amazing that after the screenplay was completed that it wasn't given to someone (even a fanboy) to look for these shortcomings! There is over fifty years of spiderman cannon to look back on. Come on people... Marvel has the material all set and ready to translate... You don't have to reright the book just mold it to todays audience! Give us the classic characters and plot lines with up to date mythology and everyone will be happy!