What a waste

Rating: 3/10 (9 January 2015)

I don't remember the first movie being all that bad, aside from misguidedly dark. It had a decent cast, one central villain, and told the origin story in a standard by-the-book fashion. But that all goes out the window with THE AMAZING SPIDER-MAN 2.
Jamie Foxx, Paul Giamatti and Dane DeHaan range from questionable to god awful. When you have one bad apple in your group, it's an acting issue. But half your cast? What happened in two years that Marc Webb suddenly can't direct? Foxx and Giamatti, it's gotta take work to get something bad out of these guys! The other major problem is that they throw everything (kitchen sink, too) into the story. There is a *lot* going on here: three villains, Gwen's Oxford drama, the mystery of Peter's parents, two (almost) crashing planes. One bad guy's enough. If you're good, maybe two. This has three, one of whom is the Green Goblin. Again. Can we drop it with this guy already?
It's top-heavy, not epic. Between the plot points and the noise, disorienting effects (I did not watch this on the big screen) and gaps in logic (Why is Electro miffed at Spidey?) this is an overlong train wreck.
3/10