The Amazing Spider-man 2 (2014)

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	Year of first release: 2014
	Director: Marc Webb (500 Days of Summer)
	Actors: Andrew Garfield (The Social Network), Emma Stone (Crazy, Stupid, Love), Jamie Foxx (Collateral)
	Country: USA
	Genre: Action
	Conditions of visioning: 21.02.2015, In-flight entertainment 10" screen.
Synopsis: The masked super-hero is back, struggling in his love life in a world of villains all revolving around the Oscorp company.
Review: Already knowing the useless reboot The Amazing Spider-Man of an otherwise sympathetic franchise initiated by Sam Raimi (Evil Dead), I started to watch this sequel with strong prejudice. I quickly saw the usual Hollowood recent movies defaults of over-explaining (thieves open a crate of plutonium and the crate talks to them to explain that it is a dangerous material!), but then I could follow the movie like any other recent Action one. 2h20 feels stretched, but my main critic would be that the characters seem like trapped in Groundhog Day, repeating on and on a scenario that we have already seen. And I don't like that Spiderman jokes at everything he does. The story is better built than in the first movie, and the villain looks more serious, but his back-story is not credible. The design of Electro is partly borrowed from Watchmen's Mr Manhattan, except that when he materializes he wears nice black boxer shorts! Entertaining enough to watch on a long plane flight.
Rating: 5 /10