The amazing spiderMan 2 was released 16th of April 2014 in the UK. Me and my friends went watching that day. They're spoilers in this review and i will obviously state what's a spoiler.
For those who are fans of the series, has soon as you hear the name max, you'll suddenly work out that he's the enemy of the story played by Jamie Foxx.
The story isn't that great, it's just another generic story to show off the special effects of what the Amazing spiderman team can do. The first amazing spiderman, didn't really give you a chance to see what they could achieve with special effect trickery.
The Actor Jamie Foxx fits the roll perfectly from a Django Unchained Standpoint but early on in the story they made him a weak and pathetic character who loved spidey. Spiderman is constantly being looked at as the hero of the city because he obviously is, he's always saving the city from complete destruction on numerous occasions.
Electro (played by Jamie Foxx) Stands in the middle of Timesquare and sucks the electricity from the power lines. Nobody else notices what's going on except from the Policeman, which seems a bit odd. even if somebody just knelled down on the floor and opened up the powergrid. Somebody other thann the police man would have noticed something up. After that scene, All the police have surrounded him and have got their guns pointing at him ready to shot and the news reporter just so happens to be on timesquare and directs his attention towards electro until spidey comes in and steals his spot in the spotlight. Electro was loving the attention he was getting and once spidey stole it, electro went jealous and start causing destruction. For me that wasn't a big enough reason to turn on spidey even though electro loved him (creepy loved him) before he got powers.
From the special effects standpoint, it's possibly the best special effects i've ever seen. like literally and there's one of the scenes which shouted out to me to be the best use of special effects in any film. There's a scene where electro has shut off all the power of the entire city by cutting off the main power line. As spiderman is weaving in and out of the power towers electro is shooting his electronic beams missing spiderman and hitting the power towers, the Music which is a deep style of trombone, plays and i'm a special effects nerd, as i'm into after effects and 3ds max. Somebody who said let's use this and utizle the music with the special effects and that somebody was a genius. Most of the effects that were used in that film were generic and standard effects with simple plug ins that can be manipulated to achieve those shots.
Spoiler.
Throughout the entire film, the film wants you to care for the characters within the story and you don't end up actually caring the spiderman himself, i was sat there thinking get over it and move on because there wasn't actually any moments were i felt that these two were actually in love other than gwen becoming that one that loves too much. Gwen decides to help peter at the final battle against electro and getting the power grid back up and running because apparently she is the only one that knows how to reboot it but yet all she does is push a button at a certain time. From a lengthy slow motion scene of her faliing, well she ends up dying, she didn't hit the fall or anything but she probably just died of whiplash. The amount of times through the spiderman series, somebody hasn't died from whiplash is astonishing but that one moment when it really matters and she dies.
Amazing spiderman 2 wasn't that great but the fanboys won't be happy but for those who are looking for a waste of 2 hours and 20 minutes, you'll be happy. By the way, the film could have been 50 minutes shorter and my honest opinion, it would have been a lot better if it was shorter instead of just making the audience sit there for a lengthy two hours and 20 minutes.
