Amazing Spider-Man 2 Review

Rating: 7/10 (21 April 2014)

The Amazing Spider-Man 2 is the latest Spider-Man film by Mark Webb. The film stars: Andrew Garfield, Emma Stone, Jamie Foxx, and Dane DeHann. The movie starts out great, showing how Peter (Garfield) has gotten used to being 'Spider-Man'. He's protecting New York's citizens, putting it's bad guys behind bars, and being the friendly neighborhood hero we all know and love. He is also in the midst of a complicated relationship between him and Gwen Stacy (Stone) involving Peter's hesitance to involve Gwen in his dangerous job as Spider-Man. And before long we meet the films antagonists, Electro (Foxx) and Harry Osborn (DeHann).
Coming out of The Amazing Spider-man 2, I'm weighing out the good and the bad. This movie has its fair share of both. For example, the movie has some great action sequences, making use of stunning visual effects in the process. But these scenes are too short and too few for a 140-minute movie. This, in turn, makes the movie feel sluggish and slow to the point. Fortunately performances by Garfield and DeHann pick up the slack. There is a major improvement in Garfield's acting since the first of the films and DeHann plays a compelling Harry Osborn, even if his darker side as Green Goblin doesn't get as much screen time as Foxx. Which brings me to another downside, Electro. Electro's role in the movie is questionable, as he hardly gets any screen time himself, and doesn't measure up to his evil accomplice, Green Goblin.
As a whole, Amazing Spider-Man 2 has some good acting in it, looks great visually, and is good enough to make an entertaining addition to the Spider-Man franchise.