Let's start with the goods. I really like this song, find it a very nice theme for the second "Spider-Man" film and enjoyed it a lot more
than Chad Kroeger and Josey Scott's theme for the previous film. Yet that song (and clip) entered into collective conscience in such a big way that
anything else done for the later films of the franchise were eclipsed (to the point when "Spider-Man 2" won the Visual Effects Oscar the Academy band
played "Hero" instead of "Ordinary"). As for this very clip, well...Guess I was just there to hear the song and recall fond memories of a time when
Marvel flicks and franchises were a crawling thing rather than the massive overblown products they are today: money grabbers destined to either fascinate
audiences or make them hate the HQ adaptations.
The song is pretty good, and the music video follows the basic settings of soundtrack clips that feel like a movie trailer with all the electrifying
and thrilling action sequences thrown before your eyes, mixed with the band/artist performance, all done in a quick sucession of images and fast cuts. Here,
Train's act is basic stuff until the filmmakers decided to throw some action in the background but without the band interacting with it, such as a fast-speeding
subway train on the right corner of frame (not a pun intended with the band as there's the big sequence of Tobey Maguire's Spidey trying to stop the train),
or the insanely corny big flames behind the lead vocalist at the song's dramatic point.
It's an okay clip for a pretty good theme song that deserved some attention back then, and even now. Lyrics, rhtyhm and the powerful beat, it all
works. 7/10.
