The Increasingly Mediocre Spider-Man

Rating: 5/10 (14 June 2014)

Everyone on my facebook seems to be rating this film highly, so rather than moan obnoxiously at them telling them they're wrong I thought I'd get my frustrations about the film out here and go the passive aggressive route by just linking them to the review later. First of all, I didn't hate it. To me it was just nothing. Just a nothing film. Quite uninvolving, boring, by the numbers, cynical, forgettable.
I feel like maybe if I had seen it 10 years ago I would've enjoyed it more, but I've seen a lot of superhero movies now, so they really have to try a bit harder than this one does. It just felt like it went this bit, and then this bit and then this bit and then this bit etc, just going through the standard superhero motions with nothing really surprising or original about it. Except maybe one thing, that I won't spoil.
I don't understand why there needs to be more than one villain, the film feels overstuffed. Not enough time is given to any of them so you don't particularly care about them or the motivations for their bad behaviour. A lot of the time Amazing Spdey 2 feels like nothing more than a set up for this expanded universe they're developing; but a film needs to work on its own and this one doesn't really.
The good points; it was certainly better than the first Amazing Spider- Man, which was totally redundant rubbish, I saw it on a pretty big screen and I was sitting very close to it, so it took up all the periphery of my vision and I have an enormous fear of heights so during the bits where he was swinging through the skyscrapers of New York I must admit I got that falling feeling in my stomach you get on rollercoasters. That was pretty cool, that's never happened to me at the cinema before.
In summation, not a terrible film, but a terribly by the numbers and unimaginative one. This new Spider man series is not going well so far, and I do not have high hopes for the next one. I miss Raimi.