In Abingdon, where the severe flood warning remains on the River Ock, 570 properties were flooded.

BBC: NEWS | UK | England | Oxfordshire | River flooding starts to subside

Not until the arrival of Doc Ock (Alfred Molina), a many-limbed scientist who likes to do antisocial things to subway cars, is our hero moved to rejoin the action.

NEWYORKER: Spider-Man 2

" But the whole movie keeps going back and forth -- between his domestic distress and his troika of adversaries, none of whom musters a scintilla of the evil allure exuded by Alfred Molina's Doc Ock, the tentacled cyborg who enlivened "Spider-Man 2.

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