By the standards of the previous Spider-Man movies, decent

Rating: 6/10 (19 May 2014)

This movie was mediocre. Obviously, because the previous Spider-Man movies were, well, a lot below expectations, it's easy to say that this new movie was better. But looking at in a more general view, it's no more than decent.
Same old plot line: Peter Parker (who is considerably less geeky in this movie than in the other series; Peter is supposed to be a nerd, so this kind of puts you off) is bitten by the radioactive spider and starts shooting webs, then Uncle Ben dies, Peter cries, and vows to fight crime. I can't imagine how the directors could have made that any less cheesy than it already sounds, so I won't hold that over their heads.
But one thing I have to call out is Curt Connors/The Lizard's goal. After combining his DNA with that of a lizard and transforming himself into a reptilian beast (with pretty good C.G.I., I'll give the film- makers that), he sets out to conduct "the next stage of human evolution" or something like that. So he abruptly decides he wants to convert every single human in New York into the same lizardly state he currently presides in?? Where did THAT come from??
So the guy's a little sore about being a giant green scaly mess. But would that really cause him to decide that the rest of the world needs to become lizard-men too? This rather random goal seemed kind of out of the blue for me.
Also, I would have really liked to see both Gwen Stacy AND Mary Jane Watson in this movie. At least 50% of the drama and complexity of Spidey's story comes from his fluctuating relationships with those two women, so not including both of them, in neither this film nor the previous series, was a disappointment. I would have really enjoyed seeing the directors take on the challenge of showing Spidey/Peter's relationship(s) with these women, because it adds much more reality to the story.