Heavily Disappointed

Rating: 1/10 (10 July 2012)

First off I will say something that everyone already knows is obvious, this film will be forever compared to the first three by Raimi, it is impossible to not draw comparisons between the two. Pros of new movie: Good Cast, more True to the Comics, good CGI (MINUS, the CGI for the lizard which was pretty horrendous considering it's the year 2012) Cons: Story flow, unanswered questions, "secret" identity not so secret, the new suit, the movie score, clichés,etc.
Going into this film I had very Luke warm expectations, but deep down I WANTED to be proved wrong, I hoped that this movie would deliver and amaze me more than I had expected. Something happened I didn't think would, I left more disappointed than I thought I would have (which is saying a lot).
For one, the first half of the movie moved way too slow for me, I found myself growing bored, rolling my eyes, and keep looking at the time on my phone. In the first spider-man movie, everything happens at a pace where it is impossible to lose interest. It takes about an hour it seems for what happened in the first 20 minutes of the first spider-man movie. Not only that but watching this film made me realize just how smooth the storyline moved pacing wise in the first film. I found myself asking..the way they set up the situations in this movie, why did Peter follow the path he did? He wanted to track down his uncles killer right? He falls through a roof that just so happens to have a mask painted on a wall inside and he decides he needs a mask...okay yes, but why the sudden jump to the spidey suit? A design he seemed to randomly pull out of his ass/ the air...it just didn't seem natural or right to me.
One thing they advertised about this new movie was the origin story and finding out more about Peter's parents, but no more information is given within the movie that we didn't already conclude from what we saw in the trailers. So the extra 20-30 minutes of "exposition" in the beginning of the movie seemed absolutely pointless in retrospect. They definitely should have cut that down.
The way that Uncle Ben was murdered in this movie seemed like it was quickly slapped together in pre-production. It made me say wow, really? That was lame...and I thought the way Uncle Ben reacted in that situation made him look like kind of an idiot..no wonder he got shot. The flow from Uncle Ben's death and to the rage and revengeful nature of peter parker seemed much more epic and exciting in the first film! In this one there's about two scenes in-between that slowed things down a bit more. I know the differences are big to try to not make the movies too similar, but there had to have been a better way.
Next, the snarky comments of Spiderman were funny to a point, but the scene with the car burglar and police I found myself growing annoyed with Spider-man when his comments made him seem annoying, full of him self, a show-off, and ultimately...an asshole. When the police come while he's running his mouth to the burglar, the police come and he just keeps running his mouth to the cops too being a wise-ass. Then he runs from the cops and "woooo's!" as he's swinging...and *cue heroic music*...the music was sooooooooo mis-fit in this scene.
Anyways, I could go on on with more detail but my review will turn up being a 20 page essay. Couple more things: One of the main things about these super hero movies is identity, especially with peter...however I feel like Peter exposed himself to more people in this one film within 20 minutes than Peter did in all three Raimi films (minus the train scene in spider-man 2...but still, in that case he did not do it on purpose). Garfield was constantly taking off his mask, exposed his identity to his love interest almost right away...there was no build up for that.
So much more can be said, but I am running out of space...a lot of the other disappointed reviews that pick on more issues I also had with this film.