Despite being one of Spider-Man's go-to comic book villains, Electro ends up getting a strangely meek treatment here, and even an actor of Jamie Foxx's caliber can't do much against the tide of effects-driven performance and bad writing. The major issue with the character is that his motivation to become a villain is so hilariously awful: as Max Dillon, he looks up to Spidey and appears to deeply value an encounter in which the web-slinger saved him. Thus, when he turns into Electro after an improbable accident involving electric eels, he snaps at Spidey just for forgetting his name. After that, he claims that he's going to cut the power to New York to make the city's citizens feel just as he did when he worked at Oscorp: powerless. It might just be tough-guy rherotic, but it's unconvincing at best and goofy at worst, making even the frustratingly ever-sympathetic villains of Raimi's Spider-Man movies favourable to this nonsense. His final showdown with Spidey is easily the character's highlight, though when he eventually loses to Spidey and disappears into the ether, we feel absolutely nothing.
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