Very underrated

Rating: 8/10 (8 June 2015)

*WARNING CONTAINS HEAVY SPOILERS* I was one of the rare few who found the first Amazing Spider-man movie to be really good, so I was definitely looking forward to asm 2. I wasn't disappointed. This did what a good 2 movie should do, it gave us a really good villain. Electro was a great villain, who was very menacing. Harry Osborn was another great villain, and he had a clearly explored back story and motivation. Combine the two and you get the perfect villain. Andrew Garfield and Emma Stone are still in-arguably great as the leads, and their chemistry together is top-notch. The effects are even better this time around (which is really saying something), and these are possibly the best effects I've ever seen. This movie keeps a great tone, in that it has some funny moments, but it knows when to be serious, and that's the tone I want from a Spider-man movie. I'm still not 100 percent sure how I feel about Gwen's death. It made a nice conclusion to the series, but if they had wanted to make more, they would've needed Gwen alive. There are a few too many plot-lines, and that's why I rate this a bit under the first movie, but I still give the story a thumbs-up. In conclusion, I think this movie was really good, with great characters, perfect visual effects, a good story, that occasionally got too muddled, and a good tone. I was really sad to hear that this great series was getting thrown out to make way for another bland MCU movie with forced humor and no tension. This could've been one of my top five favorite trilogies of all time, now it'll be my favorite double-feature. This was a great send off to a great series.