Amazing Film That Manages To Keep Balanced

Rating: 2/10 (2 December 2014)

First of all the visual effects of this film are incredible, as a spider-man fan to see spider-man swing around the city like in this movie is extremely pleasing. The second thing I love is the cast. Andrew Garfield is perfect as Spider-man/Peter Parker.In the first TASM he captured the nerdy and socially awkward side of Peter whilst also capturing the funny side of Spider-Man.In this film he shows character growth, now he is not as socially awkward because hes outside of high school whilst still being nerdy and of course Emma stone and Garfield's chemistry on screen is the heart of the movie which Marc Webb portrays so well.Dane Dehann also manages to make Harry's character more interesting by bringing a creepy element to him, even though his arc to becoming the Green Goblin was a little rushed the way he played Green Goblin was extremely scary and unsettling.The only character I had a problem with is Max Dillon, for me his motivations weren't very clear and the overall look of the character (comb-over,spaced teeth) put me of from taking the character seriously. However Electro does everything a villain should do, he was scary and menacing especially in that scene with the German Doctor also the look of the character and the CGI work made the character incredibly interesting to look at.What I was most anxious about was the increased amount of characters and plot points, what I was very surprised at is that it manages it all very well , even though there are moments where it feels we've went from relationship issues to dying dad to parent issues to Max Dillon talking to himself.Overall it works very well and manages not to be Spider-man 3. So overall this film has amazing visual effects, incredible performances from most characters, whilst having minor issues with some and even though it has allot going on it manages to handle it very well. I would definitely recommend this film.