A great step-up from the first movie with great effects,great music and great acting chemistry,this movie proves to be a superior and fun super-hero movie.
This movie evaluates and succeeds itself from past mistakes with loads of new and interesting characters and plotline,the most distinctive changes from the sequel is the visual,the visual is downright gorgeous and the musics that accompanies the visual and scenes made the world look real enough to captivate audiences,and the slow mo? Simply outstanding,the visual that are delivered in this movie gave the movie a unique style and differentiate this movie from the great MCU and (surprisingly) its a good thing,
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| A fight sequence in the movie |
But on the other side these visuals that made the movie stand out came late,almost 1.5 hour into the movie they are presented,that is almost too long into the movie,given its mega screen time of 147 minutes,albeit all that the cgi is a bit messy and were not that great fortunately though i think the visual sequences are too satisfying that maybe some of the audinece didn't notice and its also worth the wait and kept me wanting more and more.
As you know in this movie is packed with super villains mainly electro and and green goblin,with side villain rhino,the sinister six references and even the (eventual)spider slayer and black cat,this is the main problem with story in my opinion,in their initial presentation,electro was supposed to be their main focus and the second plot being green goblin tied together with the grand "oscorp" plot,which is good
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| The movie's main villains |
Speaking about oscorp though i love the initial aura of the oscorp,the grip and power of oscorp as a big evil corperation was really well delivered,something that was not easily done,given how the trope is overdone,back to the story,although i loved jamie foxx's electro character and acting(i mean jamie foxx as lab nerd?priceless)
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| Pictured: Nerd |
The character is not well-developed and confusing,his origin story and especially his goals are almost laughable and absurd,this character is confusing,what are his goals? first he wanted attention then he wants everyone to feel like him,living in a world of absurd,this "goals" of his is one of the most tired cliches of movie history and honestly expected more from this movie,he unfortunately is like a throwaway villain in this movie,an attention crazy lightning man doesnt really scream "memorable super villain" to me, but i love foxx's hamminess enough to entertain me throughout the movie,and every time he shows up dubstep happens,dubstep lightning powers,think about it for a sec
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| Not Pictured: Lightning Dubstep |
Given that i cant really bash him too much(dubstep!) but i for me the greatest performance,right after spidey and gwen,must be danny dehaan's role of harry osborn,his banter with peter and role of a dying millionare,betrayed by his own company is perfect,a great chemsitry between actors,brilliant character and acting and made james franco's new goblin look like a b-list villain,though his screen time is pretty short for a build-up through out the netire movie,that short sequence led the one of the important moments in the movie,Gwen stacy's death,green goblin stuck around maybe until the next several movie,which is great beacuse he is a successful sympathetic villain and i want more from his performance and seeing him as a green goblin again,a memorable villain in a soon-to-be epic franchise.
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| Goblin Post Transformation |
And of course the highlight of the movie is the relationship between peter and gwen and it works perfectly,the chemistry is there and i felt like i seeing a real couple facing real problems,even though they mostly dominated the screen time through out the movie,the scenes never tired out,and actually made the audinece care about their relation ship,which made gwen's death so shocking(at least for non-comicbook readers)and made all the nerds in the theater weep a bit,this is also helped by the fact that they are real couples in real life,and the main actor, Andrew Garfield actually can be a great spiderman,a wonderful potrayal of spiderman and i dare say,on par with tobey maguire's potrayal or maybe even more,when he's spiderman he can be fun,qupping and throwing one-liners when he's peter he can be romantic,serious,sad and friendly,a good choice of casting is the main factor the movie works,
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| The initial couple |
Okay good things aside though,the factor and made the movie stumble is the story,i said that the acting is great but that doesnt mean the story is great either,its okay but the movie itself lacks focus,at first they want to focus on electro's origins but partways thru the movie the movie switch focus to oscorp,i get that they want to further deep down on oscorp,that's okay,but how everything is connected to oscorp is almost not believable,and how the goblin and electro met is done in a way that looked like a last second wrap up and felt rushed,the movie obviously have pacing problems,yes movie i loved harry's role but that doesnt mean that his origin story and transformation that have been build up through the movie felt so rushed,its okay to wait until the next movie or in the credits scene,we want more is what i'm saying,and what i mostly didnt like is the reveal of peter's dad,richard parker,marc webb tries to replace ben parker and became peter's morale bases,that's great but what are they going to do with ben? What role does he play? Its like they throw ben's role in the first movie,but i digress maybe they have plans for the next movies,maybe taking plots from the clone saga,so we'll just have wait for now,and also this movie builds a franchise for this spider-man universe a move that i thought should be done from the first movie,but its justified though,nobody wants it to be rushed and the wait definetly works,not the deep conspiratic,serious plot like captain america,the movie fullfils it role as fun ride and a great movie/franchise.
Overall the movie was great,although the story didn't made too much sense and have serious pacing issues,the overall style and uniqueness,the effects the music,made us all enjoy this movie,and me as a critic,fan and audience was no different
8.5-10
Cant wait for the sinister six!
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