Quick disclaimer: This all my work and my ideas based off of The Amazing Spider-Man 2. This is my own opinion and may not align with yours. As always, feel free to share your thoughts but keep it courteous. If anything detoriates into name calling or calling others stupid for having an opinion, I will be deleting comments because I'm getting real sick of that stuff going unchecked around here. Just a word of warning.
With that said, let's get down to business.
The movie begins with the logos that flash by and then hits the black screen. The "dong" of main theme goes and we see the spider appear as Spider-Man falls out of the sky. That part is essentially like the actual movie and so is the next five minutes when Spider-Man is chasing after the truck. However, Spider-Man is never officially able to catch up to Aleksei but has to put up with the Russians throwing explosives out the window, blowing them up in front of cop cars (as they are explosive). Following Spider-Man saving a police captain that reminds him of Captain George Stacy, the film cuts away to OsCorp, which has its alarms blaring, after Spider-Man swings away. Jamie Foxx's Max Dillon is actually walking towards the center of the building, towards a maintenance closet. Someone is talking into his ear about how Aleksei is now being chased down by Spider-Man so they are losing time to be the distraction. Dillon asks for reaffirmation that the payday will indeed be the couple hundred thousand
just to get pictures of the classified equipment. The man reaffirms it to him, exasperated as it appears he has done it a hundred times as Dillon cuts his way through the floor. Dillon opens it up to a vaulted ceiling. He smiles and brushes his combover back over his head as he throws down the mask and places the blowtorch on the metal. The film cuts back to Spider-Man, who is swinging along when, as he is about to catch the truck, gets a call from Gwen. He pulls it out and web swings through the streets talking to her. The conversation is pretty much identical to the one in the final product. Following the conversation, we see Gwen go up to speak. Again, the speech is pretty much the same one from the movie except it also cuts back to Dillon's escapade at OsCorp. Dillon manages to finally breach the floor and puts the metal back up on the ceiling and seals it with an OsCorp sealant. Dillon mutters to himself that he can finally live by himself, without his mother with that money. The man says that he willl have more than enough money to pay for her nursing home but Dillon stops listening as he looks at the seven chambers in the basement. Spider-Man, finally, catches up with Aleksei and takes him and his goons down. Gwen's speech is almost over as Spider-Man's own camera flashes and fades into Max's camera flash going away. Max, having gotten all the pictures, begins to walk away as he is told when Max notices a hallway. He goes over there and sees a whole bunch of eels there to which Max says that he thought that OsCorp got rid of all the cross species. OsCorp secruity finally shows up and fires at him as he ducks and it shatters the tank around Max, causing him to get electrocuted by the eels and actually get transformed.
Peter makes it to the graduation in time for his name to be called. He, however, does not kiss Gwen like in the final cut of the film. He, instead, makes his way off stage with the normal amount of applause for a student that no one really cares too much about. Peter and Gwen catch up with Flash, who says that he got into college on an Army R.O.T.C. scholarships to Empire State University. Gwen wishes Flash luck in college and Peter says that he is going to E.S.U. as well but Gwen is going to Columbia University for school. They part, however, when Flash runs off to see his family and Peter notices the ghost of Captain Stacy for the second time. This leads Peter to break up with Gwen later that evening, again, like the final cut of the film. The montage, on the other hand, actually makes the distinction to the audience that a year has indeed passed between his graduation and the current events, making him on his last rope as a Freshman in college by the time the story really picks up again. (Instead of him stalking her, he only considers calling her between scenes in the montage with his thumb hovering over her contact but deciding not to at the last minute.) The story picks up with Max Dillon's body finally receiving a burial following OsCorp tests on it for the year to figure out what effects the cross species had. Menken talks to Ratha about how there seems to have been yet another failed cross species "experiment" and that this one has the potential to stay underwraps. Menken turns away to take a call and Menken begins to get in an argument about bringing someone to someone. Menken eventually agrees to do it and tells Ratha that it is "time". The next scene is Harry showing up to see his father and the dynamic and conversation between the two of them is actually exactly the same. Norman Osborn passes away and Harry becomes C.E.O. which Peter sees on the news. The film then cuts to that board room scene but, in this one, Menken fills Harry in on the criminal attacks on OsCorp and that OsCorp is, unofficially, at war with this "Big Man". Menken tells Harry that this "Big Man" has been paying off people in OsCorp to do his dirty work for him i.e. steal things and acquire classified information. Peter does show up and Harry and Peter do hang out for a bit when the film cuts to the morgue where Dillon's body has been transported until the burial. However, on accident, the dancing M.E. knocks a light down and the electricity sparks Dillon to life and kills the M.E. Max Dillon, worried and alone, heads home after a year.
After hanging out with Harry, Peter gets a call from Gwen to meet her. The same character interaction takes place between the two of them up through the ice cream when the film cuts back to Max, who arrives home to see the OsCorp employees paying off his mother. His mother is standing up and takes the check from the employees who say that it is "the last of the million dollar installment" and "to remember the deal". She asks what deal while being mesmerized by the money which prompts the employees to take the check back and she says that she won't talk about her son and mutters that he was a disappointment anyway. Max becomes furious, screaming that everything he did to protect her and to help her and she lets him disappear off the planet. He kills the OsCorp employees and then kills her, which prompts the calls for police response. Peter and Gwen talk and Gwen reveals she is up for a scholarship to Oxford. Peter is saved from having to respond by the sirens which turns their attention away from the situation and when Gwen looks back at Peter...he isn't there. Max is shown to be standing against the police, who are ordering him to stand down. Max fires bolts of lightning at the police, which fries a few of them. They begin to fire and Max manages to turn the bullets back at them without knowing how he did it. Spider-Man shows up and kicks him in the back. While Max flies through an electical circuit, Peter flies out of the window and ends up down the road from Times Square. Max flies out of circuit (still wearing the clothes) and blasts Spider-Man down the road. Spider-Man asks how he still has clothes on but Max doesn't offer a response as he blasts Spider-Man into Times Square. Everyone begins running away as Max goes in. Max says that these people left him to die in OsCorp and that no one ever cared about him and, that, now everyone was going to care about him, one way or another. He begins firing electricity at the people in Times Square as they flee. Spider-Man tries to stop him but gets blasted into a toy store. Electro continues to demonstrate his power, even managing to start to fly as he begins to get elated from the power. However, Spider-Man manages to use a fire hose to bring him down and Electro is locked up in Ravencroft.
Harry Osborn goes through the files after dropping the cube on the table. The first thing we see him look through is the surveillance file in which he finds one titled "Peter". He calls Peter in to talk about it and tells Peter that Norman has had him under surveillance. Harry also shows the work with the spiders between Richard and Norman. Harry points out that there is only success story with the spiders and he shows a picture of Spider-Man. Peter says that Harry can't just "get to Spider-Man". Harry, however, mentions that his father has had him under surveillance since he was 7 years old and when his parents bailed and that Harry knows that Peter, himself, is Spider-Man. Peter asks who those files are available to and Harry says that they are only available to the C.E.O. and, while Harry is alive, that is him and that it is in Peter's best interest, as well as Harry's, to keep Harry alive. Peter asks if Harry can just run a blood test first but Harry explains that Norman managed to extend his life through many different processes that were destroyed following the Lizard attack and that Harry is terminal. Peter decides that he has no other choice but to give Harry his blood and agrees to do it. Harry becomes very happy and the two of them embrace. Peter, however, starts to wonder about the surveillance and it brings back the parental mystery.
Peter decides that he should talk to Gwen about the new surveillance stuff and he begins to when she walks into the final interview for Oxford. However, Peter lets her go and goes home upset when he runs into Aunt May. When Aunt May asks what is wrong, Peter asks her if she knew that she, Uncle Ben and him had been under surveillance since his parents disappeared. May replies that she did know. Peter asks what May isn't telling her. May says that OsCorp was the one keeping them safe from angry partners of Peter's father who he had been selling genetic research to. The surveillance that OsCorp had been keeping them under had been condoned by Ben and her in order to protect them...should, perhaps, Richard Parker come back. May explains the whole genetic research and the illegal sales of all of it. Peter, then, goes upstairs, locks himself up and starts throwing around his father's stuff, in which he finds the coins for the train station. Peter manages to understand that his father had a secret lab that he needs to find. Peter heads out to that secret lab.
Harry Osborn is feeling pretty victorious as he sets the vial of Peter's blood into a vault before the operation is done in the morning. However, an attack occurs in the building by the Russian Mob who are breaking into Special Projects. Harry finds out about Special Projects just then and asks Menken what is going on. Menken states that Special Projects is where they keep all the military contracts and...other stuff built for the future. Herman Schultz manages to get ahold of shock gauntlets and breaks out with a ton of equipment from the Special Projects division. Following the nightmare, Menken had managed to falsify evidence against Harry (that he had been the one to notify the Mob of the basement storage) to get him kicked out of OsCorp. Harry becomes angry, knowing the blood is in OsCorp and remembers that Electro is locked up in Ravencroft.
Peter discovers that the spider venom is specifically coded to his DNA and, as he exits, he is about to call Harry when a voice message from Gwen plays, stating that she got into Oxford and that she is moving to England. This forces Peter to head after her and he does the "I Love You" stunt on the bridge. Harry and Electro team up to break back into OsCorp and, then, to take out the Mob, once and for all. Harry needs Menken to get back into Special Projects, where Peter's blood was moved. Electro demonstrates his power by shutting down power to the entire city and, then, promising that everyone will have to live under his rules because, now, finally, he is the one with the power. Spider-Man heads out to fight him as Harry gets into Special Projects where he, himself, injects himself with Peter's blood. Peter's blood has the same effect on him that the spider venom did on him in the final cut. Spider-Man manages to beat Electro by getting Electro to exude his electricity on him and drag him out into the river. However, Electro overloads himself before Peter can bring him into the river and it kills him. The electricity actually disipates and restores the city's power. Peter hears about the Big Man from Electro before Electro explodes and Peter uses his job at the Daily Bugle to find out who the rumored Big Man is and finds out it is L. Thompson Lincoln, who has a business partnership, ironically, with OsCorp. The only way to get into the building is with an employee card and so Peter has to take Gwen with him. Green Goblin breaks into the building and threatens Lincoln, prompting him to look at what he has done to Harry. Spider-Man is able to get in the building, thanks to Gwen, undetected and he gets the jump on Harry Osborn. Harry states that Lincoln was the one who wanted him gone so that Menken, who was one of Lincoln's stooges, could take over OsCorp as well. Lincoln states that those accusations were unfounded. Spider-Man pleads with Harry to not kill Lincoln and, when Harry tries, Peter pulls him off his glider and out the window with him. The two fight but the glider saves them. Peter says that he knows that the blood didn't work for him because of his father encoding it with his own DNA but that Harry can't kill people. Harry goes crazy when he realizes that Peter knew that the blood would mutate him. Harry goes after Gwen and brings her to the top of the bridge.
Peter is unable to reach them before Goblin drops her off the ledge. Peter snags her foot with his web but it breaks her neck, killing her. Spider-Man goes off on Harry and the two have a throwdown that leads into the clocktower. Without wide open spaces, the glider becomes useless and Spider-Man takes the advantage, nearly beating Green Goblin to death. However, Peter remembers the words of his uncle and he stops. Peter, then, proceeds to howl at the sky for the death of his love. The following scenes are all pretty much the same, including the Sinister Six scene with Green Goblin stating that he wants to build a team. The motivations are murky but those will be explored in the sequel. Peter becomes Spider-Man again thanks to Gwen's speech and he fights RHINO at the end.