Amazing Spider-Man 2: The Untold Finale Edition, The

I enjoyed this edit. The editing was pretty much flawless. The pace was much improved upon. The theatrical version was overstuffed and this streamlines it very well.

This fanedit is from the same editor of the first film and completes his vision of the Amazing Spider-man films, one where the first film completes the story about the mystery of Peter’s past, while the second film focuses only on Peter’s present. Sort of. By nature of the plot of this film, Harry Osborne is an old friend of Peter’s who comes home due to the death of his father and Max becomes Electro, and Gwen Stacy is moving to London, and yeah it’s still a bit jumbled, but the fanedit removing the Parker parents subplot makes it far less so. The fanedit allows these plots to breathe or take up their own space more. There’s a few moments where “this is an edit” pop out to me, pretty much any time the Richard Parker briefcase is seen in the closet.

Yet the things that always worked about the Amazing Spider-man films, the Gwen Peter young love story, the Spider-man character’s fluid movements, the two electro fight set-pieces, the emotional climax, and Garfield’s over-abundance of responsibility. The fan-edit mostly is to streamline its focus on the three main stories above, yet they all feel really disparate, almost as if they only intermingle due to plot devices to get us there.

I have to say though, I still think the emotional climax of the film taking place (during the Goblin fight) is a beautifully conceived moment and maybe one of the best moments of Spider-man film franchise history. It adds a huge sense of gravitas to the film that really was struggling to find it’s identity.

A few things this edit does to improve the original cut is the wonderful new theme for Harry, it’s haunting and it works. Harry here is introduced right from the get go and it really does make the story feel like it’s about Peter and Harry than it is about Electro as the main villain. It helps a ton and really ties the opening and ending climax, as well as the opening shot of the watch and the ending of the clock. It’s all about how much time these characters have with each other, strengthening Harry’s thematic motivations of trying to fight his disease.

It’s a super strong edit one I really enjoyed. My favorite thing about these two edits is the new openings. They tie the films thematically so much better than the original openings did.

Audio/Video Quality: Superb visual quality but the audio is slightly on the muffled side and this edit doesn't have a subtitle too, so some scenes are a bit hard to understand.

Visual Editing: Perfect, I didn't notice any added scenes or newly edited scenes at all. If you haven't watch the original cut, you wouldn't notice anything out of place.

Audio Editing: Again, perfect same as visual editing.

Narrative: The movie doesn't feel cramped even with two villains, but I feel like the relationship between Harry and Peter is still a bit thin and that makes the inevitable "Confrontation scene" a bit weak. There're just not enough time and scenes too make me feel like they're best friend but that's probably because there's not enough footages in the cutting room to fresh out the relationship anyway, so not really Masirimso17's fault here. Same deal with Aunt May, she's really doesn't have anything to do in this film. Electro is good in this cut, his motivation is understandable and he's doesn't feel like a sore loser anymore. Gwen's role in this cut is also really good, you can really feel her uncertainty and struggled in the relationship with Peter.

Enjoyment: Overall, really good fanedit and I feel like it in the same quality as the original TASM 1 theatrical cut. I just wish there're more materials in the cutting room for Masirimso17 too work with, because he really did improve this film by a mile and it's so close too being a perfect Spider-man movie experience, just not quite there yet.

So, i was honestly surprised by how a middling to poor movie has been molded into a solid, good Spider-Man movie, complete with all the necessary elements; you have bravery, conflict, pathos, heroism, pace and a much needed clarity. Won't waste time; pairing it with masirimso's TASM untold extended edition, this follow up is definitely a hot recommend, Good watch, man, masirimso has done it again.

The editor has done the impossible, or so I thought until now, and made at best a B movie into for me, is now S tier.
Gone now is the Batman forever vibes and the Parker parents subplot which added nothing to the movie and instead it’s streamlined into a wonderful romance movie between Peter and Gwen whilst we can also feel how alone Max is as he’s pushed toward villainy, and makes me think of the excellent spectacular Spider-Man series.
Green Goblin is also improved as much as possible and isn’t as cringe as the theatrical made him.
If this were the theatrical version we got at release date then I guarantee that we would have got an amazing spider-man 3.