A disappointing sequel to the exciting reboot

Rating: 4/10 (18 September 2014)

I have to say that I didn't know what to expect with the first installment into this series reboot, but I very much enjoyed the first one. Andrew Garfield made a great Spider-Man and I loved it that his trademark quips were brought in. The new villain was cool.
This did not lead to my expectations at all.
The man's transformation into Electro was a little cliché and predictable, but everything based on the comics is predictable. I was okay with that.
Garfield's acting was spot-on, but Emma Stone was lame, for a lack of a better term. Her acting wasn't great and she had several cliché lines. Aunt May (Sally Field) and Peter Parker's lovely relationship that I very much adored in the original movies was not here. I think the original movies had one of the best family relationships I had ever seen (Aunt May and Peter Parker), and it just wasn't done well here. Harry Osborne (Dane Dehaan)looked like a creepy crackhead in high school that was starving himself. He didn't look like the calm but dangerous Harry I was familiar with. He was just really...weird. Finally, all Jamie Foxx did was make cliché (I frequently use this word) statements. His motives were a little whimsical as well, and his sudden changes in his views of Spider-Man were odd. I understood how he was feeling, but the swings were fast and extreme.
But bad acting can be overlooked with great fight scenes and explosions and the occasional funny joke, right? That's what helped me get through Transformers: Age of Extinction, which I was pleasantly surprised with. Anyways, the fight scenes were boring. They creators of the movie relied on airborne scenes and CGI effects, rather than cars crashing and blowing up and people being in danger. There were a lot of flashes of blue and pops of electricity. It was hard to tell what was going on. And when the Green Goblin (Harry) came in very, VERY late into the movie, the fight did not last a minute. No joke. "I'm gonna get you, Spider-Man!" "Oh yeah? I'm gonna punch you!" Then he punches him and knocks him out and the fight is over. In the original movie, Spider-Man and the Green Goblin were crashing through brick walls and throwing punches all over the place and tearing their suits and showing blood. The Goblin was even stabbed in the stomach without dying immediately. Here, it took one punch. Lame.
Gwen (Emma Stone) dies during the "battle" with the Goblin. It was a little surprising with its suddenness. Peter visits her tombstone several days of the year, and the camera shows the same angle over all the seasons. They were well-done scenes and emotional, one of the few good things of this movie.
In the final scenes of the movie, a criminal breaks out of jail and mans a robot that looks like a rhinoceros. Like we haven't seen that before. And he says something along the lines of "Spider-Man, I'm going to DESTROY yooooooouuuu!!!!!" The end. I'm guessing the next movie will feature a robot giraffe that can breathe fire.
There was one other really cool scene when a criminal is firing a machine gun or something at Spider-Man, but in slow motion, he's twisting away from each bullet. That was really cool.
Altogether, it was a very disappointing movie. It seems that half of the viewers liked it and half didn't, so you never know. You might enjoy it.