Cringeworthy

Rating: 2/10 (26 October 2012)

Although it has a couple of clever moments, this is not a good film, and basically represents a Hollywood bereft of new ideas. First of all there was no need for a reboot of this character as the other films were very recent.
Second, the film is BORING. It plods along at a very slow pace, going from one clichéd superhero scene to another, with seeming eternal dialogue in between.
I know the main character is a good actor, as I liked him in "Little Red Riding in the Year of Our Lord". But he is given practically no range in this role. There are no other great performances either.
There is very little action, except for the cliché'd, predictable fight at the end, which is basically a typical CGI sequence.
I was a devoted reader of the Spider-Man comic as a kid, and it saddens me to see what he's been turned into. It would have made far too much sense for Gwen Stacy to die in this film, which is what the original character is most notorious for. But naturally they are saving that for another money-making sequel, which is becoming standard procedure.