Nice touch with the story development

Rating: 7/10 (21 April 2014)

The story start by delving deeper on Peter's parent's death, then focus on the events from the first movie with Spidey and the police chief. Peter can't handle the dilemma so Gwen breaks up with him. As always there's controversy among New Yorkers about Spidey fighting crime. Trying to move on past Gwen, Peter gets reminiscent of his late parents. The focus then starts alternating shifts to persons like Max Dillon, who was briefly saved by Spidey, his complex insecurities, and his ultimate transformation into Electro. The focus also shifts to Harry Osbourne who inherits Oscorp after Norman Osbourne dies.
Spidey then meets the psychologically unstable and transformed Max Dillon. A battle ensue between them because Max take it too personally when Spidey fails to remember his name. Peter researched about his parents while fixing his web-shooter that breaks in the fight against Electro. Not long after, Harry find out about the project that will be Green Goblin's gear, and a conclusion that Spidey's blood can cure him from his genetic illness. He calls Peter to see him in Oscorp Tower. Meanwhile, Gwen escapes capture after she is to be arrested by internal Oscorp security for searching information on Max Dillon.
Spidey then sees Harry to explain to him that it's dangerous to give Harry his blood but Harry can't take it. Aunt May tells Peter a thing that she kept from him about his father and Peter is confused over it. But he soon finds a keyword and heads to the place referred, Meanwhile the traitor inside Oscorp manages to fire Harry off his position. Harry then gets revenge by freeing Electro and forcing the Oscorp brass to give him the spider venom which is supposedly the alternative for Spiderman's blood. His body doesn't react well with venom and he gets into Green Goblin armor to support the self-healing effort better.
Electro draws Spidey out by plunging the city into blackout. Spidey goes on to face him, telling Gwen to stay behind. Gwen disobeys and helps Spidey to reset the power grids. After that Green Goblin comes, revealing that he has discovered Peter's Spiderman identity and feels disappointed on the Spidey's blood issue. Another battle then ensue, in which Goblin is defeated. Harry the plots to gather men for what's to be known as Sinister Six.
As all previous Spidey movies, drawing straight from his characteristics in the comics, this movie is full of small laughs and on-liner remarks. The story builds well to considerable depths. No scene is wasted as almost all consistently contain significant weight, either to character development, story build-up, or to include snippets of cross-reference to the comics.
The acting is good overall. Andrew Garfield and Emma Stone still retain their class, and even the lit up Jamie Foxx portrays the bad guy well enough. Dane DeHaan did a good job also, although I think that the screenplay isn't being developed well on the final battle scene that it feels like his acting is a little lame there.
For me the action is quite a so-so, considering that most are done through CGI. What I was surprised to see is that the materials that were published for marketing purposes such as on featurettes, clips and even trailers have elements of the ending, something that is rarely done nowadays.
The first movie doesn't really give obvious hint for a trilogy setting. But here the leads are more than crystal clear. And there's also room that is left vacant in the romance department for the next installment. From the way the story develops, it makes me curious about the next installment. Is it going to be a trilogy, meaning that it's likely to be an epic scale battle, or will there be more than a trilogy, meaning that the story will be developed into a more detailed presentation.
Finally, overall from me The Amazing Spiderman 2 gets a 7 out of 10 score from me and a recommendation to go and see it.