Amazing Spiderman 2 is crowded yet fun!

Rating: 6/10 (30 April 2014)

Amazing Spiderman 2 is crowded yet fun!
Alright! May 2nd 2014 is approaching towards us, it's the day when our friendly neighborhood Spiderman will be hitting the silver screen once again with its freshest sequel to his 2012's reboot "The Amazing Spiderman 2". I got my hands on the pirated copy of The Amazing Spiderman 2, few days back, it's available on the Internet. Yaikks! Piracy alert! Yup, I downloaded it because I couldn't resist. The promos were so compelling and consuming, I just wanted to quench my irresistible desire for the web slinging action.
This is not the first review on the Internet for this movie and people have called it "perfunctory", "Waste of Time" and "Insipid". But at the same time people have also given it glowing reviews calling it "Inception of a great movie series". I was blown away by the first Sam Raimi's Spiderman Movie and I was quite disappointed by the reboot that happened 2 years back. However, I think the director Mark Webb has hit the right spot this time. Andrew Garfield shines as both Peter Parker and Spiderman. The one thing that stands out in the focus light is the ACTION! It's just phenomenal, some of the scenes are breath-taking and you will be completely engaged when the Spiderman jumps and slings from one building to another while dodging a homing missile at the same time kick goons and showcasing his acrobatics before he lands on the ground!
When I saw the trailer, I was pretty sure that this movie is going to suck really bad as Electro is not something that fanboys would consider before Venom, Mysterio or Carnage but I was completely wrong. They've given Electro a fresh perspective, and the thing which really got me riled up for Electro was its presentation. I have one word for Electro's outlook "COOL", you will see its transparent skin under which the lightening is swimming and his eel like facial structure, everything about electro was a fit!
The trailers posed 3 villains, Electro, Hobgoblin ad Rhino. And when I saw it, I thought it's going to be a crowded movie and the story won't be able to do justice to all the villains due to time constraint. I won't say the movie is not crowded but its not congested due to many villains, its because of the dragging emotional plot of Peter Parker. The plot goes back and forth on the same family and love-angle topics so many times that you will start to feel hammered. They could have just removed extra emotional culmination points.
When it comes to super villains of this movie, in actuality, there is only one villain who got proper screen time, that's Electro. Rhino got the shortest, hobgoblin was hovering off-n-on. There are some really charismatic action scenes in this movie that every fanboy or even the fresh audience must watch. The action scenes are properly choreographed and they are long enough to consume the audience with almost nil shaky cams! Just an personal background - I have enormous hatred for unnecessary shaky cams during an action sequence, which are being used a lot these days to make it more engaging and I totally believe that it takes away the thunder of scenes and abundantly irritates the audience. Back to review - Andrew Garfield and Emma Stone's chemistry felt organic. Spiderman's humor was an untouched subject in Sam Raimi series, but here it is evident and actually works perfectly! His quips will actually make you giggle at times. Jamie Foxx has done a spectacular job in being the Electro! By the end of the movie, you will also palpate the assembly of the "Sinister Six" in the story line for future films.
Verdict time! - The Amazing Spiderman is a fun movie to watch much better than its 2012 predecessor. The story could have been optimized and focused. There are sections of movie that will make you hate it, but the action scenes of this move will make you love it more! It's not going to be the best movie of 2014 but surely it is the beginning of something huge! I will call it "Watchable without Ganja".