"When Is This Movie Over?"

Rating: 7/10 (4 May 2014)

I brought my son last night with anticipation of a blockbuster follow up. Sadly this movie dragged on full of story line that robbed itself of dynamic flow an action paced film requires.
We've seen books turn into movies. This movie felt like a movie turned into a paperback book. The scenes had too much dialog in where redundancy of its context turned this action into more of a soap opera. I found myself having to keep myself optimistic that the movie will progress.
Without having to give spoiler alerts, the scenes that had action were more of a show of graphics horsepower than brilliance in storyline. The villain(s) roles were poorly written in a way that was haphazard, untrue to the purists, and as if this will be the last Spider-Man installment. I say this because it seemed as they ran out of money/time or just didn't care to take attention to detail. If it weren't for my son wanting to see this movie, I wouldn't mind leaving. Thankfully Emma Stone kept me intrigued. Otherwise I would have been searching for a pillow.
The Amazing Spider-Man franchise has done a poor job in transitioning away from its comic book aesthetic the way the Batman franchise did into the Darkknight franchise. Bottom-line I still prefer the original Spider-Man franchise because it was the best written and produced. How can they make this up to me? Well they kind of blew it with the villain aspect. But if they find a way to finally link Spider-Man to his Avenger teammates, that would be ultimate.