A disappointing sequel

Rating: 5/10 (24 August 2014)

Everything started out good when being thrown right into the action combined with some beautiful visual effects and a few good laughs, but after introducing Electro everything went downhill. Not only was his overall looks terribly executed, but his motives for wanting to kill Spider-Man and taking the power away from the entire city felt weak and forced for the story to make sense.
We also have the complicated relationship between Peter and Gwen. After leaving Gwen after her father's death in the previous movie, just to take her back five minutes before the credits we once again have to listen to Peter explaining why they can't be together, which kinda makes you feel like they haven't evolved one bit since the last movie. It's thanks to the incredible acting of Andrew Garfield and Emma Stone that I feel like I really care about them and I guess that's why I was so bummed out.
Though a lot of things were great with this movie, such as visual effects and acting, including Dane DeHaan who did a great job portraying Harry Osborn, I can't help that feel that my overall problem with this film is the script. They mixed in too many villains and the script got to suffer. I never felt like we got to explore neither Harry nor Max enough to make their stories feel real.
Overall an okay movie that couldn't live up to the greatness of its predecessor.