One of the most surprising issues about The Amazing Spider-Man 2 is that there's not really all that much action in it. In a near-two-and-a-half-hour blockbuster epic, Marc Webb doesn't find all that much room for set-pieces, clearly far more invested in the dramatic aspects of the narrative. After an opening sequence in which Spidey takes on Rhino briefly, it's a head-scratchingly long time before he faces off against Electro and the movie picks up momentum again. Then there's not really a lot of major action again until the (admittedly rather good and lengthy) finale. Perhaps we've all been spoiled recently with The Raid 2's all-you-can-eat buffet of action, but for such a long movie to feature so little of Spidey taking care of business makes it feel like audiences were rather short-changed.