Amazingly Predictable and Boring

Rating: 5/10 (3 May 2014)

*** May Contain Spoilers ***
Not being very high on the first installment of this reboot, I went in with pretty low expectations for the second installment. While very visually impressive, the story line for The Amazing Spiderman 2 falls just about as short as the first. Outside of Sally Fields "who plays Aunt May and Dane DeHaan "who plays Harry Osbourn" the acting is very sub-par. The villains in this movie come off very corny, Jamie Foxx did the best he could with a horrible script and even worse re-design of a comic character. Paul Giamatti is introduced in the beginning and only again at the end to set up the 3rd film as Spiderman's nemeses Rhino. Dane DeHaan is probably the most impressive in this film, he plays a much better Harry Osbourn than James Franco ever did, the problem being The Green Goblin character was just done not long ago in the other Spidey franchise and it feels forced. Too much time in this movie is wasted on setting up sequels for movies 3 and 4 then focusing on material at hand. The visual effects in the movie are done amazingly well, and most of the actions sequences were very entertaining, just too far in between scenes that left you asking why they were even shot.