Soulless

Rating: 1/10 (23 October 2012)

I'm more or less disgusted by the fact that this piece of incoherent plot-hole-riddled and bad acted soulless piece of dumb 3d eye candy for the masses can get a 7.5. The movie has no atmosphere or moods, no character-development, no pay-offs, and some of the most random pacing I've ever seen. It just seems like it's a greedy attempt to keep cashing in on the Spider-Man franchise and nothing more. Even tough the Sam Raimi trilogy had it's flaws, were a bit cheesy and the third movie had a bunch of awkward scenes to say the least, these movies at least had heart, personalty, pacing and steady direction - a comparison with them to this piece of saddening emptiness would feel like the Godfather trilogy compared to Colors. And with a budget with over 225 million dollars the effects where only mediocre - I've seen movies with under half the budget with way more impressive CGI and action sequences.
And what was up with the emo/punker/skater spiked-haired and butt-hurt-faced Peter Parker? In the comics he starts out as a quiet nerd and an outsider (which Sam Raimi at least kept faithful to), instead they suddenly change him into this smart-ass teenage hipster rebel with about as much of an interesting personalty as a glass of air. In the original his nerdy and shy nature also made his crush on Mary Jane seem a lot more human and made you care and cheer for him, since she was way more unattainable for him, since she didn't knew about is secrets - in this movie he gets with her before the second act and reveals his secret to her before the third - in the original trilogy this theme kept on going to the end of the second movie.
But what bothers me the most is just how stupid it is. Like Spider-Man cap keep on fighting a huge lizard-man with the strength of an elephant, even though he slams him into everything and throws him trough several bookcases and walls (which under normal circumstances would destroy the person before the wall - or at least both), but this hardly makes Spider-Man break sweat or loose stamina, and after-wards he rushes into town and swings acrobatically around and fights cops like he barely got a scratch from his recent encounter with the evil reptile-man, but as soon he is just strafed with a bullet on his leg, he is hardly even able to move, swing or run, like the bullet was made made of Anti-Spider-Man metal, while the sinister crocodile-mans punishment was mere sparring. But of course Spider-Man gets all of his strength and powers back as soon he just sprays his wound with a bit of his old web. And I'm not even going to go into the the little kids dad and his crane-driving buddies and how they managed to coordinate all the constructor-cranes in the town in like 3 minutes to show Spider-Man they loved him. The movie is just full of in-logical and cheesy stuff like this, which just is insulting to anyone who thinks while they're watching a film.
To me this movie is as insulting like something like The Phantom Menace or Transformers 3..