Nice movie but falls a little short of amazing.

Rating: 8/10 (17 May 2014)

The Amazing Spiderman 2 gets a lot of things right. Awesome visuals? Check. Incessant-but-adorable spider man chatter during fights? Check. The love chemistry between Parker and Gwen is believable. There's a certain energy around those scenes, as well as scenes involving his aunt.
What the movie lacked though was a certain consistency that ties up all these together. Because of this, i sometimes felt like I was watching three different movies. One second it plays like a slow drama. The next its a zippy flip. Sad. Happy. Fun. Serious. The best directors are able to make the transitions between different scenes appear almost effortless. Mark Webb is a good director with a lot of potential. But he is no James Cameron. As such, part of the movie feels rushed or chopped.
The final 15 minutes feel almost like an afterthought. So given all this, would i recommend that people watch Amazing spider man. Absolutely. Yes. It's a little flawed and a little silly at times. But the same can be said about the character.
And in the end, that's why we all love him.