Same Old Same Old

Rating: 4/10 (12 May 2014)

Pretty boring. Jamie Foxx was a good character, but every villain in these things ends up doing pretty much the same thing - causing vast mayhem and the city to shut down. Then hero fixes it. Peter's parents subplot went on way too long and who cares, and is anybody not sick of Aunt May's homilies and Uncle Ben spouting wisdom from beyond the grave? Also, random 'dramatic' scenes like two planes somehow going to crash unless the lights come on fast (I hardly count this as a spoiler, since it exists in the film for about 3 minutes and if you don't know instantly what's going to happen you've never seen a movie before) is Stupid. Pilots flying 'blind' would certainly take measures to go up, down, something to change course, and anyway, why would they be flying directly into each other anyway? Just dumb. Overlong. Gwen was good, and Peter had good moments although S-M did seem to let bystanders get killed while he was making jokes with other bystanders.