A Very Average Superhero Film *SPOILERS*

Rating: Null/10 (7 July 2012)

Alright, first of all let me make clear that im not slating the film I just found it to be a very average super-hero film.
Let me set the scene, a friend of mine went to see the film a few days ago on release and said that he loved it and that it was better then the Dark Knight... Now im no idiot but just from seeing the trailer I had the sneaking suspicion it wasn't going to be as good as DK...
My impressions on the film are simple and can be summed up as this: "Its nothing spectacular, its an average film." To clarify to those who are interested, no it doesn't even touch the dark knight in anyway, shape or form... Its a much better watch, go see it if you haven't already.
My biggest problem with the film is that the entire main cast of characters are oddly connected to one another, the world in this remake of spiderman seems very small and oddly set up, the only way I can describe this is there just seems to be many coincidences within the film... for example it just so happens Parkers love interest and school mate is a lead intern with the villain of the film, its a coincidence that parkers father was directly linked to the spider weaving project (sigh) that would lead to his powers some years later - its also a coincidence that his father was head researcher and his best friend was again the villain of the film - this is simply LAZY writing and doest bring anything to the film. Oh and his love interest girlfriends dad is also the Captain in charge of finding Spiderman - That's a hell of a lot of coincidences right there...
My second gripe is that there's A lot of sign-posting in this Spiderman remake... A lot. I know signposting has become the Hollywood norm and for some reason American writers and studios like to treat their audiences as complete morons who wouldn't be able to work out the simplest of plot devices even when its explained to them ten minutes before in a previous scene... Spiderman does this... Again and again. The more noticeable scene is when Parker stumbles into the lizards lair and finds a Youtube style video (sigh) explaining EXACTLY what the lizards going to do and why he's doing it... There's then a map laid out on the table with the location of the final showdown circled in red pen and labelled for good measure - REALLY? Another example would be the machine thats very obviously pointed out to us at the beginning of the film in the OSCORP labs - its purpose can be summed up as 'It's a fancy looking Mortar, nothing more, nothing less' that Parkers dad designed (sigh.) The acting and characters are again average, but the writing lets the story down, the Police Captain who's hell-bent on bringing Spiderman to justice, OK not a bad plot, a bit batman esque sure, but the funny thing is twenty of his best men just got transformed into monsters by the giant lizard destroying downtown... That doesn't concern him though and he decides to throw everything at Spiderman who's done nothing but assist and help the cops... The captain then decides it'd be a good idea to storm the OSCORP labs with just himself and Spiderman - yet he has a small army of Police and SWAT officers surrounding the building... WHY? Who would do this? You can probably guess it doesn't end well for him and it wouldn't would it? He knew who Spiderman was afterall so of COURSE the script demanded he be gotten rid.
The action scenes are OK and the film is passable if you switch your brain off.
In short its a 'painting by numbers' kind of film.