Folks, the car thief scene, as it stands, makes no degree of sense whatsoever for the following reasons:
1. How did Spidey get into the back seat of a locked car
before the carjacker broke into it? Does he have Nightcrawler's powers now? At least when Batman seems to appear and disappear out of nowhere, he at least has ninja skills and completely open spaces to work with.
2. Even if Spidey somehow managed to get into the car before the carjacker with his spidey speed and in complete silence, how did he know which car the carjacker would break into beforehand? I guess his spider-sense is now full-blown precognition?
3. How does the carjacker not even notice Spider-Man is in the backseat of the car? Granted it is somewhat dark, but I think it would be pretty darn easy to see somebody wearing an outlandish and brightly-colored red and blue outfit sitting in the backseat. Unless the car thief really is really that visually impaired and/or color blind. After all, he does think that Spidey is a cop initially.
4. When Spidey first webs the guy inside the car, you can see that the web attaches to both the carjacker's mouth and arm. But then in the very next cut, they've suddenly vanished. So where did the webbing go? I thought it was supposed to dissolve in an hour, not instantaneously. Nice consistency with the visual effects there, filmmakers.
5. How does Spidey get out of the back seat of the car and behind the carjacker without opening the back door or rolling down the windows? I don't remember seeing the inside light coming on which usually happens when anyone opens a car door. More teleportation powers and spidey ninja skills, I guess.
6. If this scene is taking place as rumored after Uncle Ben is killed but before he apprehends his Uncle's killer (hence why he's apparently checking the carjacker's wrist to see if he has some distinguishing mark or tattoo that Uncle Ben's killer had) then why is Spidey making with the wisecracks, as well as being a complete *****ebag besides? Spider-Man fans know that whenever someone he loves gets killed or seriously hurt,
Spidey stops making jokes. If Spidey merely suspected this guy killed his Uncle, I doubt he would be toying with and bullying him like he is here.
7. When an abbreviated version of this scene showed up months earlier,
Marc Webb explained that the reason why Spidey is acting the way he is at that moment is because he's "feeling drunk on his power" and "having a really good time." But if this scene is taking place after his Uncle Ben's murder, wouldn't he have
stopped "feeling drunk on his power" after his Uncle was killed? I thought his Uncle's death was the thing which taught him not to be "drunk on his power."
8. What kind of cop (even if it is a cop from New York, no offense) tries to shoot a person and nearly kills another in the process immediately after he tells the guy to freeze? Granted, Spidey is making a move towards him, somewhat, but hasn't this cop ever heard of the concept of a "warning shot?"
9. What brought the motorcycle cop there in the first place? More importantly, what brought all the other cop cars there? We didn't exactly see the motorcycle cop call for back-up. Did they all respond to shots being fired within a span of ten seconds? Were they part of some sting operation to catch the carjacker that Spidey inadvertently interfered with? Was the guy parking the car part of it? If so, how do the cops know that was the car the carjacker would steal? And if it was a sting operation, why go through all this effort to catch one measly carjacker?
10. Why is Spidey,
a guy who can literally leap across buildings, climb walls, and has devices which allow him to create webbing for him to swing on, literally
running away on foot from the scene down a busy street? If he's able to somersault over that cop with such ease, what was to stop him from leaping onto the building and scampering away? Wouldn't that have been safer as opposed to running into traffic and leaping onto moving vehicles?
I know, it seems like I'm nitpicking and this is a two minute scene out of a 136 minute-long movie so we have yet to see it in it's proper context, but even so.