Great Villians shame about the rest

Rating: 5/10 (11 July 2019)

This was very messy, if it wasn't for the second half of the movie this would garbage. For the first half we get, a reason Pete's parents left, introduction and origin of Electro, Harry Osborn introduction, showing Oscorps inner evil, what Aunt May, Gwen and Peter's relationship woes and a 15 minute action sequence that adds nothing to the film. There is so much crammed into the first half I'm surprised I didn't get whiplash, some of the set up works like Harry, Electro and Oscorp but the rest is just so unnecessary. That's not to say that I didn't enjoy Peter's parents but it actually set the ending up in quite a smart way, the action sequence was good as well but apart from kind of connecting to the ending doesn't add anything the narrative of the movie. There are some weird things in here like the relationship with Gwen, it worked so well in the first one their chemistry was on fire but here it just felt very clunky and didn't really mesh too well with what they portrayed in the first. Gwen is given a little bit more to do but much like the action sequence it doesn't really add much to the movie, there are other way to show their feelings.
I will say Jamie Foxx was awesome, granted what he was given wasn't the best. His character takes a massive leap for no reason but there is never a dull moment when he's on screen though, he just chews the scenery. Dane Dehaan does similar thing but there isn't a negative with anything he does in fact I'd say he's probably the best written character. Which is weird because he was such a vital part of the original trilogy, you'd think seeing him again wouldn't be compelling but it was. There two are easily the reason to watch this, everything else is just fairly ok with some good parts.
The ending of this was fantastic, it gets me every time. Just wished they'd mixed this and the alternative together then it'd bring 2 subplots to a close nicely instead of having to choose between the 2. That's a small gripe as it only effects 2 minutes of the ending overall but doesn't subtract from it too much.
Much like Spider-Man 3, there was a lot of studio interference they wanted to do one thing whilst Marc Webb wanted to do something else. This could have been great if they had let him take the reins, shame though as they just over stuffed the movie with fluff.