above average. better than the last Spidey. good and bad.

Rating: 6/10 (12 November 2012)

mild spoiler - I'll give you a warning...
The good.
This takes us back to the TV show a little bit. A lot of the "Spidey" scenes are shown with a lot of grit/realism and windows, and that's a good thing. Early on, this flick is super cool.
Emma Stone is a hotty even if her lines are pretty bad.
The first half of the film is funnier than any of the Spidey entries, and the set-up/character development of Spidey himself is pretty strong.
The Bad. The second half of the films story seems rushed and thrown together in haste. Emma Stone's character was so poorly ignored that it really hurt the film.
The most likable character(spoiler alert stop reading this paragraph), played by Dennis Leary, is killed. It leaves a bad aftertaste and hints to sequel sub-plots that we already don't care about.
This just came out too soon and contains too many of the similarities to the original spidey comic book storyline development for us to really care. The film actually excels and surpasses the same set-ups from the last trilogy, but the second half reminds me more of the last hour of SPiderman 3 when "The Amazing Spiderman" let's the geek squad run and ruin the grittyness and likability of the first half of this film.
The writing isn't the best, nor is the pacing. It loses all comedy and drama in the second half, and starts using far more of the CGI spidey than the real spidey, which is the intrigue of this films first half. Shame too!
As good as I expected, but no better or worse. 63/100
You'd Like This If You LIked: Hulk(ed norton vers/about even), Spiderman 3(not as good as TAS), or Green Lantern(about even or ever so slightly below this)).