Amazing, but quite unoriginal and brings up some déjà vu moments

Rating: Null/10 (2 May 2014)

I just went to see The Amazing Spider-Man 2 last night with friends. We went to see the 3D version. Overall, the movie was great, it was totally worth the ticket. So if you folks wanna see the movie, I really do think you should see the 3D version.
I loved the movie generally. However on the down side, I would say this movie is (a): déjà vu; unoriginal; cliché. Let's start from the beginning.
The movie starts with Spider-Man catching the bad guy in the street of New York City, being all cool and witty that he is. This scene is so amazing in terms of special effects. You'll see a bunch of things flying at you (classic 3D trick, but hey, it's still entertaining to watch!). They sometimes slow things down a bit so the audience can feel the 3D effects.
While webbing the bad guy, Spider-Man whistles the Spider-Man original theme song, which reminds me of Sam Raimi's version of Spider-Man (the one with Tobey Maguire). If you remember it, the second movie of Sam Raimi's Spider-Man is also the first of the series to introduce the theme song.
In the mean time, Gwen Stacy is at her graduation ceremony. She delivers a brilliant speech about how immortality is one of the reasons why your life is important, and a bunch of things that normally wouldn't be in a high school graduation speech.
Then drama drama drama. Peter and Gwen break up, then they become friends again but can't really move on, oh Harry Osborn appears and he's so handsome and all.
Anyway, Harry in this movie is dying from some kind of illness that he got from his father, Norman Osborn. And the only way he thinks he can be cured is by getting bitten by a spider. In this case, getting bitten by the spider that bit Peter Parker who now has super power similar with a spider. But the spider species has been killed by the OsCorp long ago. So now his only chance is to get the spider's DNA which is in the Spider-Man's DNA.
Thinking that Peter is friends with Spider-Man, Harry asks Peter to talk to Spider-Man to donate his blood to Harry. Peter says no because he knows there is a high possibility their blood isn't compatible and that Harry could die from it. But then after a bit of a begging, Peter says he'll try to help him. So then Spider-Man shows up in Harry's mansion, only to say he refuses to donate his blood.
Meanwhile, we learn that a guy named Max Dillon has once been saved by Spider-Man in the first scene. Max is sort of a sociopath who has no friends and feels invisible. But after his encounter with Spider-Man, he starts to feel confident, thinking that he's special to Spider-Man.
One day, on his birthday, he gets electrocuted inside the OsCorp laboratory. Then he falls into a tank full of genetically modified electric eels, in which he gets electrocuted again. And then he turns into this monster named Electro. Electro is basically a living electric generator that works like a battery. He controls the electricity around him and uses that to attack people and buildings.
But Max isn't a bad guy. At first. He is just confused with what happened to him, so he wanders in the Times Square to search for answers. He meets Spider-Man there, and Spidey tells the cops not to attack him. Max explains that he feels happy that he's friends with Spidey, and he looks very happy to see his face on the billboards. But then again, a stupid human cop decides to pull the trigger, which angers Electro/Max (really, in every movie. Can't you human cops learn that your human-made guns are nothing compared to those genetically mutated monsters?).
Anyway, Max starts attacking people again, but Spidey manages to stop him using water that basically messes electricity up. Then Max is brought to a lab, and is being studied there. The lab people want to see how much energy Electro can power.
Now let's get back to Harry Osborn who's now desperate to find cure to his illness. He finds out that there is still a left over DNA of the spider in the secret lab. So he goes to the lab that has Electro in it, helps Electro escape, and goes to the OsCorp to steal the left over DNA with the help of Electro.
This time, we learn that Peter manages to find a video that his parents stored in an abandoned subway. In the video, Richard Parker explains that the OsCorp betrays him and his wife, Mary. He also says he has secretly done something with the DNA of the spiders to only match his bloodline DNA. So if Norman Osborn or his bloodline ever tries to get injected with the spider's DNA, they'll die or something bad will happen.
Anyway, back to Harry in the OsCorp. He's now injecting the DNA into his body, and he starts transforming into the Green Goblin (déjà vu much?). So then he starts being mean to people. Then there's fighting scene, which is great. It's very hard to describe a fighting scene in words, so I'm just going to skip to the end. Gwen Stacy dies. If you watch the movie, the movie itself is already giving away some hints that Gwen is going to die. The graduation speech, the going away to Oxford together. And to be honest, I think the process of building up the momentum of her death is sort of cliché. Harry survives and is now being incapacitated in a mental asylum. Spider-Man takes a break from saving the city, until a giant rhino guy appears and starts messing around. Then Spider-Man re-appears and defends the city. All in all, it's a good ending.