Swing and a miss

Rating: 1/10 (24 July 2012)

I'm not saying that for a movie to be good it has to follow the source material (in this case the comic books) to the letter. I think it's quite alright to change some plot elements to make a bit different. Thats OK!
In my opinion, what is NOT OK, is to change who the main character IS. And that's exactly what's been done. The main characteristics of Peter Parkers persona is responsibility. I didn't see much of that here. Instead he was shown as skateboarding little sadistic jerk who could't wait to take off his mask for everyone who was interested. The scene on the balcony with Gwen when he shoots her in the ass with his web made me want to get up and leave the theater. Revealing he is Spiderman, for his personal gratification, or whatever you want to call it, is the last thing he would ever do. If you haven't understood that you should not be doing a movie about Spiderman at all. Call it something else.
A cornerstone also in Spiderman is how close to one and other Ben, Peter, and May are. None of that is shown. They just seem to irritate each other and bicker. The scene where Ben gets killed fits this perfectly - Peter hardly seems to care. A total miss.
If this movie had stayed true to the basic elements of Spiderman I would have given it a 5 because of some fun action scenes. But because this was a total misinterpretation of character (both Spiderman and Peter Parker) I'd give it a 0 if I could.
In the future, whoever was involved in forming this movie, do everyone a favor and stay away from the Spiderman franchise and don't ruin the Spiderman character more than you already have.