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Monday, 5 May 2014
The Amazing Spiderman 2: Rise of Electro
This review may contain spoilers.
Welcome to a prettier version of Spiderman 3 boys and girls, strap yourselves in, it's going to be an underwhelming ride. I would give the Amazing Spiderman 2: Rise of Electro a 6.5/10.
The visual effects within this film are stunning, the care taken to depict Electro are entrancing to watch. Furthermore the cinematography is stunning, the opening visuals of Spiderman's movement through New York are like you're falling to Earth with him. But most importantly the music for this film was stunning, it flowed with everything in the film perfectly. I also loved how they did the death of Gwen Stacy, it was tragic and well shot.
Dane Dehaan, who played Harry Osborn, is a mixed bag for me so I'll explain the negative to his character as writer's error because he was a great Harry Osborn; he brought the need to prove himself and the friendship between Parker and Osborn to levels that james Franco never really reached.
Andrew Garfield, who played Peter Parker, is Spiderman body and soul, where in the original trilogy we got a story of shy and angsty Peter Parker, now we finally have the Spiderman who cracks banter and struggles incorporating superhero life and normal life together. This is what Spiderman is as a character, nothing short of perfection.
So this franchise does Spiderman correctly as a character and it has some groundbreaking aspects of production, how could it be bad? Well let's just say the advertising lied to you. The enemies that the marketing flaunted are weak and empty anatgonists, the relationship between Peter and Gwen is so back and forth and convoluted that I'm ready to move on to Mary Jane now, and the weird backstory about Oscorp and his parents is just so erratic that you shouldn't care enough to try and follow it. It was weak storytelling, hell it was Spiderman 3 all over again. I think perverting Green Goblin in such a way was also a huge mistake, seriously they can never live that awful character development down.
Emma Stone, who played Gwen Stacy, isn't fun or interesting anymore; she just gives more of the same performance in a way that just feels repetitive. Jamie Foxx, who played Electro, was ridiculous, he was such a two dimensional character; his entire arc was nobody likes but I'm crazy to I want to destroy everything and I'm crazy. Colm Feore, who played Donald Menken, deserves to be remembered as the most boring antagonist of all time. Paul Giamatti, who played Aleksei Sytsevich, was horrendous; he can't do a Russian accent which is literally the only thing his character needed. Sally Field, who played Aunt May, is one of the worst depictions of Aunt May I could imagine; she flips from potential comedic relief to self pity all with the tired performance I've come to expect from Field. Campbell Scott, who plays Richard Parker, does not strike me as a father figure; I serious do not care about him and frankly he deserved a less impressive death scene than he had. Chris Cooper, who played Norman Osborn, is mud to me now; that was not Norman Osborn, that is not how you portray Norman Osborn and a disease that makes you look like a goblin is weak writing.
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