The less amazing spider-man

Rating: 1/10 (3 April 2016)

In the second installment of the reboot we have the following story, which is... I have no clue. There are to many sub story lines, but the main one is about Electro fighting with Spider-Man. I believe...
This movie is directed by the same director of the first movie. He is called, ironically, Marc Webb. He poorly directed this movie, the previous one he did way better. In this one you can see that he didn't put any effort in the movie. He also used a lot of lens flares, and angled shots. These look ugly combined. Very ugly, and he uses them a lot. I can't remember if this is used in the first movie. The cinematography isn't that great too. I just didn't find myself thinking that it was shot nicely. The editing wasn't good too. You can see this in the beginning of the movie, with the chase scene. They think that they create a lot of tension with quickly edited scenes, but it doesn't. It really doesn't. In this scene we also meet Rhino and Electro. This was the beginning of an overcrowded movie. There is also a use of shaky cam. Also in the beginning of the movie, but this time in the airplane scene. Here they probably used it, because this is one of the only fight scenes I think they used real people. Shaky cam is also a technique to create 'tension' with me it only creates anger. It's so obnoxious, and every director of mindless action movies uses it. Which says enough. The director also likes his slow motion. This was overused. The scenes in slow motion looked like they were created by a computer, which they were, but it didn't look good. You can also clearly notice that the movie is produced/made by Sony, there is lot's of product placement. A lot.
The acting fine. Well, for the most part. Let's start with the main character. Peter Parker, or as we also know him, Spider-Man. Andrew Garfield played him. I think that he was a good casting choice. He was good, I liked him. Then we have his girlfriend, sort of, Gwen Stacy, played by Emma Stone. I liked her too, but just not her relationship with Peter, and I will touch on this subject later. The bad acted roles come now. But let me say first, these are not bad actors, they are good in some movies, but the director just didn't directed them good enough. The first one I will discuss, is also the main villain. Electro, played by Jamie Fox. He overacted his roles as Max. It was mostly funny to watch. The other villain was the green goblin. He was played by Dane Dehaan. Dehaan has done good movies where he was good in ("Chronicle" or "the place beyond the pines"), but in this movie he made the same mistake as Fox. He overacted. Also about the part where you can see this the most, I will discuss in a bit.
The writing is the biggest problem of the movie. Everything is way too convenient. But let's first go to the dialogue. This was just plain bad. The love dialogue was cringe worhty. But overall there were some dumb moments in the dialogue. There is literally a scene where Gwen says that she is okay with Peter stalking her. WHAT THE F*CK. Why would you ever be fine with that? What? But not just in the dialogue. For example the filthy face scene, or the cheesy hero-montage. And one of the funny things is, is that they try to be emotional at times. It's just so funny to watch. An example of this is the appearance of the dad of Gwen, or the death of Osborn. But to come back to the relationship between Gwen an Peter. It feels like it is written by a 12 year old.
But now to touch on some other things. There are a lot of clichés in this movie. German professor? check. References pushed right in your face? check. Love hate relationship? check... The list goes on. ANd like I said there are a lot of conveniences. All of the characters conveniently meet each other. But that's not the only thing, there are other things but these will come. My problem with Electro/Max is of course the acting, but also the origin story, it was so bad it was funny, and this was also due to the acting. But his motive to hate Spider-Man is stupid. In five seconds he goes from loving him to hating him. But I hated Green Goblin. When he transformed in to him, it was also funny to watch. But the worst part, and convenient part comes with the costume. I just appears. He immediately knows how to use it, and what all his gadgets are. What? come on! The story overall sucked, it tried to be to much, but failed at it. Oh and I last thing. Why does Electro create music when he hits the electric poles at the end? What the F*ck!
Thank you for reading this review of the horrible Spider-Man movie.
1/10