The Amazing Spider-Man: reasonably entertaining, with a capable cast, attractive production values. The issue lies on the question “is yet another origin story needed, this early”, and the answer is “no”. In particular, the villain here is essentially the same as in the previous films, cut from the same cloth. Therefore, the film feels simply too familiar, a reheated version of something else that wasn’t really all that great to start with.
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