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Rating: 8/10
Rating: 8/10
Andrew Garfield and Emma Stone return to Marvel’s rebooted
‘Amazing Spider-Man’ franchise with high expectations. Filmed in 3D by director
Marc Webb, it takes you inside the web-slinger’s world unlike ever before.
Garfield finally looks comfortable playing the lead role and
gets very close to erasing Tobey Maguire’s memorable role as the ‘Amazing’
hero. Emma Stone is brilliant as Gwen Stacy, his love interest. Their love
story is one of the highlights of this action packed 3D adventure.
The wall-crawler faces multiple villains this time around.
Unlike Sam Raimi’s ‘Spider-Man 3’, the villains do not feel overwhelming.
Garfield is the star and every time he is on screen, he shines as both Peter
Parker and Spidey.
The film kicks off with Spider-Man swinging the skies of New
York looking for trouble. He tackles Russian criminal Aleksei Sytsevich in a
get-away truck holding flammable liquids. Sytsevich is portrayed by Paul
Giamatti who looks like he is really enjoying the role. He later gets his own
super-villian moment as ‘Rhino’.
Spidey eventually succeeds taking down Sytsevich and makes
it to his high school graduation as Peter, missing girlfriend Gwen’s speech. The
primary antagonist in the film is surprisingly a good guy turned bad.
Versatile
talent Jamie Foxx plays nerdy Spider-Man obsessed engineer Max Dillon working
at Oscorp. Having been saved by Spider-Man in the beginning, he becomes
his fan-boy.
Poor Max stumbles into a tub full of electric eels and gets
transformed into electric-powered being later known as ‘Electro’. Electro turns
against his hero when he blames him for not protecting him from the cops.
The web-swinger succeeds in restraining him with water. In
the midst of all this chaos, as both Peter and Spider-Man, he has to deal with
his relationship with Gwen and also tackle a returning Electro and former
best-friend turned super villain Harry Osborne who becomes the Green Goblin. At
the same time, he discovers the mystery behind his parents leaving him as a
child.
Dane DeHaan’s portrayal as Harry Osborne is lot more
sinister than James Franco’s in Raimi’s ‘Spider-Man’ films. Franco edges out
Dehaan and the relationship between Peter and Harry as buddies was better
played out relatively.
The film ends on a bittersweet note that leaves you in tears
with some hope for the future. Spider-Man according to Peter is all about hope
and you really believe it coming from Garfield, especially when he shows
emotions.
The film is great entertainment. The 3D scenes are
brilliantly done with spectacular scenes as you follow the friendly
neighborhood web-head swinging around the city. They come to life especially
during the epic action sequences. There is even a sneak preview to a future
Marvel film during the credits not to be missed.
‘Amazing Spider-Man 2’ is an entertaining super-hero film
with lot of heart worthy of another sequel!
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