Review of The Amazing Spider-Man 2 (2014) by Richard C — 23 Sep 2017

This movie is just bad. The acting is terrible, it's like everyone was locked into a contract that they couldn't get out of and had to do this movie. The chemistry between actors is lacking. It seems like Emma Stone hated the script for her character. You can see she wants no part in it. When onscreen, you can barely tell Peter and Harry are friends and if you know nothing about Spiderman you would assume their coworkers or something that are forced to work together. It's like Andrew Garfield and Dane DeHann hated each other in real life. Aunt May fails to provide any pure emotion in the film. When she's crying it seems like she's tired rather than sad. I think the only real emotion we got was from Jamie Foxx, too bad that was overshadowed by a poor script and bad character writing.

The story is quite lame too. The love story between Gwen Stacey and Peter is pretty forced and off and on to the point it honestly gets annoying (I think Emma Stone thought the same). Electro was a pretty lame villain. He had a lot of potential to be cool, but I don't think anyone honestly cared to write a good script anymore. Gwen Stacey's death was sad, but if I didn't say it was predictable, I would be lying. As someone who occasionally read the comics, I wasn't shocked at all at Gwen Stacey's death. Hell, if you never read the comics it's still predictable. They give her a super long amount of screen time instead of Mary Jane, weird, right? Well, that's because she gets killed. If Gwen Stacey was part of the love triangle between Peter, Mary Jane, and herself it would be more interesting to watch and to see her die because of Peter would be even sadder and less predictable and develop Peter's character in the third movi- oh wait.

Can we just talk about that stupid GODDAMN ENDING!? Okay, they had a Rhino fight scene, hell yeah I love Rhino. I was hyped to see Rhino, they ended the trailer mid fight scene. Dope, so that means I get to see the rest of that fight scene, right? No. No, you don't. The movie ends the same way the trailer ends. Mid fight. Right before Spiderman hits Rhino, cut to black. I thought there was something wrong with the projector at the movie theater. But when the credits started rolling I could hear everyone in the theater click their tounges and moan out "awww man". YOU CAN'T JUST CUT TO A CLIFFHANGER WHEN THATS HOW YOUR TRAILER ENDED. If you PROMISED a Rhino fight scene in the trailer, but that fight never really happens, YOU LIED! GOD DAMMIT I WANTED TO SEE RHINO! I've been typing for a while, and sorry if I overwhelmed you and you stopped reading halfway through so here's a TL;DR.

TL;DR: The acting is lame and the writing, and basically everything felt like no one wanted to be there. They made a predictable death scene. They promised a Rhino fight scene that never happened. Bad movie.