surprised at the score

Rating: 4/10 (8 August 2014)

OK, stream of consciousness on my part. Sorry for the lack of proper structure, but I just saw the movie and this one has to get out of my system. Usually I find the ratings on the IMDb website helpful - in 9 of 10 movies i would have given a similar score. Not this time. I might be biased because i like the comics but even if i try to keep this out of my review, I still think it is a terrible movie. I found the actors little convincing in their portrayal of the characters; it might have been the fault of the directors for not writing them properly. Don't know. Andrew Garfield is constantly twitching nervously and is trying too hard to be a nervous unattractive nerd. And the slapstick humor in some scenes is just annoying. The movie couldn't hold my attention for more than the first 30 minutes, maybe less. That's when I started to look at my watch and wonder how much longer this is going to take. Overall the characters are one-dimensional, spider-man isn't funny, unless you are 6 years old, aunt may is your stereotypical worrier, Gwen Stacy - "oh, the super villain with mega electro powers is going to fight you in a battle to the death? - I'll tag along, OK?!?!", harry Osborne - hair cut is already hinting at his abysmal decline to a bad guy (which is put so poorly on the screen that I had to laugh - his appearance seemed so awfully forced...), electro - suddenly he wants to kill spider-man even though 5 minutes earlier he was his buddy for life, not convincing at all. But the highlight came at the end - Rhino - wtf!!!! that dropped the rating another 2 points down the ladder - that was just the highlight of terrible ideas. The action sequences were nice - no complaints there. You could clearly see that this movie aims at a younger audience. No comparison to the first 3 movies where Sam Raimi was responsible for the franchise. Tobey Maguire was also a much better match for Peter Parker as an insecure teenager. Even though the reboot of the franchise is supposed to be darker than the first trilogy. To sum it up - one of the worst "mainstream" marvel films. Comparable in my eyes to Daredevil or Ghost Rider. Again, sorry for the poor structure and the mistakes - like i said stream of consciousness.