I wanted to watch this movie the day it came out, which was
May 1st, but unfortunately I kind of lost track of time because that tends to
happen when you're on your summer vacation. So I had the chance to watch it
today and in 3D, which was pretty nice considering that I barely attend 3D
movies. Now I must say that I'm more of an Andrew Garfield fan than a Tobey Maguire
one. But in all honesty, I had high hopes for this film bearing in mind the fact
that I loved the first one, I'm sad to say it didn't quite deliver it for me.
Let me start off with some good points, for instance the
battles between Spiderman and Electro are fantastic, I've never been so engaged
into a battle like this for quite some time and it's just a pleasure watching
them fight it out with awesome choreography and spectacular visuals and music,
I mean Hans Zimmer is the composer so you'd expect the music (especially during
battle scenes) to be epic, and oh boy it was. Jamie Foxxx was spectacular as
Electro, I had my doubts about him I must say, but he impressed the hell out of
me. Just the fact that he goes into extreme territories of obsession indicates
that he's not the type of guy you'd want to tread on. The CGI on him was terrifyingly
realistic and his character is just so unpredictable and live, you feel like
he's just doing to get recognition, and that's scary, how extreme he goes just
to be recognized. And let's not forget the chemistry between Andrew Garfield and Emma Stone was flawless, my god Emma Stone is beautiful!
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And Dane DeHaan did
quite a good job portraying Harry Osbourne and I loved the way that he's
actually a goblin. As freaky as that may sound but he actually transforms into
a goblin. Rather than in the original Spiderman where the Green Goblin was just
Norman Osbourne wearing a goblin suit. Also
this film is meant to be seen in 3D cause you'd really be missing out, it's not
the kind of movie you'd watch in 2D because it won't make sense.
But now let me movie to the negatives. First off, this movie
felt kind of like a videogame in some sequences, it was too CGI-ish. For instance
with the slow motion segments, I felt like I was playing a videogame where one
of the objectives is to save people before time runs out (you'll know what I'm
talking about when you watch it). The run time was just over 2 and a half
hours, but they were wasted, I'll tell you why. There were supposed to be 3
villains in this movie: Rhino, Electro, and the Green Goblin. Electro gets
enough screen time, so no problem there. Rhino and Green Goblin though, not so
much. Green Goblin only appears for a total of 15 minutes maybe, and Rhino
(which really pissed me off) only has about 5-7 minutes of screen time, OUT OF
2 AND A HALF HOURS!!! Instead they focused more on the relationship between
Gwen and Peter, like seriously I didn't give two shits, I just wanted to see
Rhino smash shit up. you'd think that they'd use 2 and a half hours efficiently,
but no they just had to complicate the love story. *SPOILERS* After all that
complex romantic side plot development, Gwen dies, hoo-fucking-ray *SPOILERS
END HERE*. Rhino and Green Goblin were so rushed that they didn't even bother
trying not to make it obvious, it's as clear as solid sunshine. Like seriously,
screw the romance and put more fight scenes. This is an action movie NOT a
romance film.
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But seriously though, I would reluctantly recommend it, I
loved Electro and the fight scenes between Spiderman and him, but in all
honesty, this movie was shit. I'd recommend you attend it with a group of
friends so you could all just have a laugh and diss this movie's flaws till you
run out of breath
"I just wanted everybody to see me..."
Ahmed Almatrook
