I know people dislike this movie, and I've always delayed watching it because of that (and because none of the two reboots, so far, have successfully convinced me). How silly of me... I actually thought it wasn't that bad, quite the contrary. I was more entertained by this than by _Homecoming_ or _Far From Home_. I was pleasantly surprised, I most certainly had more fun watching this sequel than I had with the first _The Amazing Spider-Man_!

Andrew and Emma have definitely solidified their chemistry on this one (they didn't convince me that much as a couple in the first movie). Andrew also portraits a better Peter Parker/Spider-Man here, since he dropped that obnoxious immature, arrogant and careless attitude of the previous movie.

There were quite a few dumb scenes and the main villain itself was simply dumb and a badly written character. [spoiler]The way Max goes from loving Spider-Man to hating him is just appalling, as is the fact that he was such an awkward and clearly not very sociable person and as soon as he gets powers he also instantly gets a new personality — zero character development.[/spoiler] These things obviously dragged the movie down a bit.

[spoiler]The forever controversial death of Gwen Stacy was actually very well done and an emotional highlight of the whole franchise. There was just something so special and moving in the way they made Spider-Man's web string seem like it was forming a hand at the tip, desperately trying to grab and pull Gwen away from her impending doom.[/spoiler]

But where the movie truly excelled, for me, was in the Spider-Man scenes! Stunning camera work, choreography and special effects! Best Spider-Man scenes up to (and including) _Far From Home_!

After watching it a feeling remains that there's something wrong with the movie, but there's also the feeling that this was one hell of an entertaining Spider-Man adventure!

An underrated and misunderstood (broken) gem!