Quite enjoyable

Rating: 7/10 (27 April 2014)

I must admit that I did not like the first of the Amazing Spiderman movies, however I really enjoyed this.
While the first movie seemed a hodge-podge of ideas amid CGI effects, I found that they appeared to have corrected a lot of that in this outing.
Jamie Foxx plays Max Dillon an insecure, introverted technician at Oscorp and becomes obsessed with Spiderman when Spiderman saves his life. Being a virtual nobody his boss makes him stay overtime, on his birthday no less, and while doing maintenance work he accidentally falls into a vat full of electric eels, thus Electro is born.
Max is believed to be dead however while in the morgue the electricity that now runs through is body reanimates him. Spiderman and Electro finally cross paths whilst in Times Square as Electro tries to feed off the power cables that run under the road. The crowd panics and his image is suddenly on all the TV screens around the place. As Electro, Max now seems to be a somebody but he gets enraged when his image is replaced with Spidermans image.
Electro is quickly subdued when he's sprayed with a fireman's hose to temporarily neutralize his electrical power and is taken to a secure location within Oscorp for testing.
Harry Osborne makes his first appearance in this sequel and helps Electro escape when Harry's friend Peter and subsequently Spiderman won't agree to giving Harry any of Sipderman's blood which Harry believes will save his life as Harry is suffering from the same degenerative disease as his father. Harry finds out about Oscorps' secret projects and discovers that the venom from the genetically altered spiders that created Spiderman is being stored there.
Taking over the city's power supply Electro becomes stronger and takes on Spiderman one more time in an attempt to control the city's power supply via the new power grids that he himself designed. Meanwhile Harry injects himself with the spider venom believing it will cure him, yet it instead transforms him into the Green Goblin.
Spiderman manages to destroy Electro by overloading him and shortly after the Green Goblin shows up and seeing Spiderman with Gwen, Harry works out that Spiderman is in fact Peter Parker. In the ensuing battle, Gwen falls from a clock tower and is killed.
Due to grief, Spiderman has seemingly given up and disappears from sight for many months and crime goes unchecked across the city. He eventually resurfaces due to a new menace called Rhino, who is a Russian criminal in a mechanical armoured suit supplied by Oscorp. The movie ends with Spiderman and Rhino doing battle on the city streets.
Overall I liked this sequel and it had much better character development. Jamie Foxx as Electro was awesome although completely altered from the comic adaptation and this version is more similar to his transformation as per the Spectacular Spiderman comic series. But regardless the movie is enjoyable, you don't need to know anything about the Marvel comic universe to enjoy it.