An amazing movie, but not a masterpiece

Rating: 8/10 (13 May 2014)

The Amazing Spider Man 2 continues the story of the franchise, as Peter Parker (Andrew Garfield) continues to be the iconic marvel hero. Although promising to tear his relationship apart with Gwen Stacy (Emma Stone) to her father, Peter and her continues to see each other, as Spider Man keeps being the hero of New York City. Meanwhile, a new villain appears, Electro (Jamie Foxx) an ex-employee of Oscorp Corp. accidentally turned into a blue skinned person with electric powers, that seeks revenge from Spider Man. At the same time another super villain assembles, Green Goblin (Dane DeHaan), previously Harry Osborn, the owner of Oscop Corp., that turned himself to overcome a degenerative disease and also for defeating the protagonist. Differently from the previous movie, The Amazing Spider Man 2 had more special effects, more complex action scenes and more differentiated soundtrack, as Electro's electric powers requires this developments to be better represented compared to Lizard's powers. Even being an outstanding movie, in a technical way, what contributed to this movie not being as good as the first one in a general way was the fact of having two villains. In the limited time of two and a half hours was not possible to both of these very differently characters have the necessary development to the public understand or create some connection with them. Most of the time some more detailed explanations would be necessary, as for instance detailing more how the power of the villain works, or how the studies of Richard Parker, Peter's deceased father, were developed and connected to Spider-Man's fate or introducing some flash backs of how Peter and Harry met and became friends. Furthermore, Amazing Spider Man 2, even though not being another master piece of Marvel productions, is an spectacular action and visual movie, enjoyable to the hole public, but just only if character development or the plot quality is not your priority.