What a crap!

Rating: 3/10 (1 May 2014)

I should first mention I didn't like the first movie either. So maybe I wasn't meant to like the second one.
Let's start with what is working well; Emma Stone is good in her role. She is a good actress, and shine in contrast with the other actors. Then some special effects are interesting to see (when he goes around in the city), and overall the vfx quality is quite successful.
But then, everything else is not working quite good. The worst of it all is; there is no storytelling, and no story to tell. The story is bad and stupid (the planes part at the end is ridiculous, and is there to fill a big lack in the story in itself to captivate us - it was meant to put an urgency factor in the fight against electro and spiderman because in itself it was too boring to watch), but the scenes are put together in a way it skips big chunk of story to tell, leaving some explanation to our imagination (why did Electro ended up in the hands of Oscorp and not the police after his first fight!?). The love scenes are so bad and filled with emotive confusion that they will probably relate way more the people aged between 13yo and 16yo than mature people. Both bad guys seems to be totally crazy people put in some powerful situation (we don't need a story to tell when our bad guy are bad only because they are crazy), they really lack any basic credibility. There is no subtlety in the way the story introduce its rules (we see the exploding battery rule implication from the very moment it is mentioned, like the place the new energy complex introduced at the very beginning of the movie will take). This felt soooo cheap! Then there is Andrew Garfield who is only credible in his role when he tells one of his bad jokes. When he cries or is supposed to be serious, he doesn't look sincere at all... I'm not quite sure he is really better than Tobey McGuire... anyway, better or worst, he isn't a good actor in this movie (what happened since the Social Network?).
Even if the effects are well done, some full CG fighting scenes at the end are just plainly boring to watch. It is so exaggerated that there is always something that looks fake, and overall we don't get the point of paying over 200 millions to make expensive scene feel so boring.
This movie feels like an addition of different small story or ideas not very well connected together, full of cliché, in a very boring context with boring characters (Electro is deceiving, as was the Green Goblin for the 5 minutes we see him). Speaking of the Green Goblin, he is so inferior to the previous franchise one, that we wonder why they needed to reboot the franchise so rapidly...
I'll stop here.
I don't know how to emphasis how much I disliked this movie. It was simply terrible.