The Amazing Spider-Man 2 was far from amazing.

The sequel failed to match the hype or success of its predecessor from 2011, debuting in May 2014 to lackluster reviews and disappointing U.S. box office results. Andrew Garfield, who reprised his role as the titular superhero, weighed in what went amiss—and what worked—in the the Sony Pictures movie.

"I read a lot of the reactions from people and I had to stop because I could feel I was getting away from how I actually felt about it," the actor, 31, told The Daily Beast. "For me, I read the script that [Alex Kurtzman] and [Bob Orci] wrote, and I genuinely loved it. There was this thread running through it."

"I think what happened was, through the pre-production, production, and post-production, when you have something that works as a whole, and then you start removing portions of it—because there was even more of it than was in the final cut, and everything was related. Once you start removing things and saying, 'No, that doesn't work,' then the thread is broken, and it's hard to go with the flow of the story. Certain people at the studio had problems with certain parts of it, and ultimately the studio is the final say in those movies because they're the tentpoles, so you have to answer to those people," he said.