Review: "The Amazing Spider-Man 2" is a massively incompetent, utterly soulless disappointment
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I have probably seen worse superhero movies than The Amazing Spider-Man 2, but no film in this genre has ever made me so actively uncomfortable, irritated, and angry.
It’s not even that the film fundamentally misunderstands its characters and what makes them interesting, the usual bane of the bad superhero film. That’s part of the problem, certainly, b…
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