The Amazing Spider-man 2 Review (SPOILERS)- 7.5/10

The Amazing Spider-man 2 is a solid installment to the SPU (Spidey Cinematic Universe) that Sony is creating. Though at times this film does feel rushed, it still manages to keep you entertained and just have fun with "Your Friendly Neighborhood Spider-man" and all the great things about being this character.

At the start of the movie you see Spidey loving life. Peter is graduating, Gwen and him are very much in love and Spider-man is famous and very well respected and looked up to as a hero. Now relationships, I would say, are the main theme of this movie. Peter and Harry, Harry and Norman, Harry and his father and also I think Electro's relationship with the rest of the world. The main relationship from beginning to the very end being Peter and Gwen.

Constantly seeing Gwen's father as a reminder of his broken promise is breaking down Peter, which results in him breaking up with her again. This is where his life starts to fall and Harry Osbourne (Dane DeHaan) and Electo come into play. Electro having already made an appearance to both Peter and Gwen as a sad, lonely and internally angry man named Max Dillon, who eventually falls in a pit of radioactive eels. Once turned into Electro, the inner anger that Max Dillon has been repressing comes to the surface. Now, Max Dillon idolized Spider-man having once been saved by him and becomes a villain only after coming to the conclusion that Spider-man doesn't care about him or anyone else at all and he has the power to do kill him and change the world into what he sees fit.

Harry Osbourne has a much different story, sent off to boarding school when he was about 11 by Norman, his father and him haven't had even a wink of a relationship. Coming back as his father is dying, Harry learns that he also has the same disease as his father and will eventually die. All he has is a list of things Norman did to stay alive as long as he did. Harry inherits Oscorp and just like the last Green Goblin, he is over thrown by the other Oscorp executives. After finding out he needs Spider-man's blood to self-heal, he turns to the web slinger and is immediately turned down because of Spider-man's fear that he could die or become something worse. This starts his hatred toward Spider-man but finds out that there are viles of the radioactive spider venom at Oscorp. This forces Harry to make a deal with Electro to break into Oscorp, steal the spider venom and inject it into himself. Successfully injected Harry Osbourne is not turned into anything like Spider-man but the Green Goblin. This turns into a fight between him and Spider-man that leads to the death of Gwen Stacey.

I found the villains in the film to be very rushed. While the pace of there appearances was very well done, I still thought the villains themselves were either unnecessary or rushed and frankly took away from the film. The Green Goblin was extremely rushed. Though I appreciated the risk they took not giving him a mask and just going for a more sinister looking Harry Osbourne, but this is supposed to be the Joker to Batman in Spiderman's world and the character was extremely under-developed with a corny laugh. Rhino was very unneeded and cartoony. There is a scene at the end of a fight between Spider-man and Rhino that I thought could have been done better or at least been an after credit scene. Electro I actually liked but I didn't quite understand why they made the song during the first fight scene with Spider-man also be Electro's inner thought monologue, also I had a problem with Max Dillon. His appearance and personality was also very cartoonish and not something I would have went for.

All of that said I do have a lot of positives about the film that made it a good film. I thought Peter and Gwen's relationship looked very sincere and genuine and I really enjoyed watching them go back and forth together. The death scene for Gwen was very intense. The fact that the very thing that Peter promised not to do got her killed does sink in at that moment.  Being so close to saving her as she is falling down a clock tower, his web does catch her but not enough to stop her from hitting off the bottom floor. I thought that scene really showed Andrew Garfield's acting ability and I saw a few people tearing up. Jamie Foxx's Electro I thought was fantastic. Jamie did a great job still making you feel bad even though he is the villain with his constant need to feel needed. The Spider-man fight scenes were awesome. One of the things I love about Spider-man is the way he moves and gets around. This movie does a good job making him entertaining while hes maneuvering around the city and fighting off the bad guys.

Overall like I said its a very solid film. Go see it if you can. I loved it but I did have problems with it. But I would definitely see it again.


                                                               7.5/10