Miss this mess

Rating: 4/10 (23 September 2014)

Pandering piece of horse dung with virtually no redeeming qualities. Garfield and Stone are game actors yet wasted by this treacly "story." Essentially the Batman Forever of the Spider-man franchise, tossed off in an effort from Sony to sell merchandise and hold onto the license. The screenplay comes off as incredibly rushed, with horrible dialogue, and yet is strangely overstuffed as well. The ending comes out of of nowhere and was clearly just thrown in for the sake of impact. Characters change entirely with virtually no causation or explanation. I would say the effects were good if they contained any real world physics, coming off instead like live action Tex Avery cartoons. I wish Raimi would return and give this franchise the shot in the arm that Singer delivered with X-men 4.