Great Score. But....

Agreed, there was no need for this to be an origin movie again and it completely wastes the lizard as a villain. We never see anything about the effect his transformation has on his family.

There’s just too much death in this movie as well. We see Uncle Ben die in the first half of the film and then Gwen’s dad dies at the end. It’s all a bit doom and gloom when really it should have been a fun movie that deals with Spidey’s first love and trying to save a good man who accidentally transforms himself into a monster.

I loved how in the 90’s animated series Spider-Man managed to reverse Dr Connors’ transformation back into his human self and there was never any proof that Connors was ever the lizard and he’s able to resume his life. Instead in the film Connors’ life is ruined and he ends up in jail.

Also I would have scrapped all of the Oscorp and missing parents conspiracy stuff, I didn’t find that interesting at all. Instead Peter and Gwen should have just been Connors’ research assistants at a random lab.

I like the action scenes though, particularly the fight in the sewers and the at the school, just wish they’d been a bit longer.

Overall this isn’t a bad movie, in fact I think it’s quite good but I find the films flaws really obvious and difficult to overlook.