The weakest of the trilogy.

Rating: 4/10 (2 July 2017)

A few things hinder this last "Spiderman" film before those terrible new films. Firstly, the character of Eddie Brock/Venom is physically so wrong. In the comics, he was a very tall and strapping person of 6 feet 4 inches and weighing about 290 pounds of muscle. In "Spiderman 3," he looked about 5 feet 8 and weighing about 150 pounds. How on earth someone could have got this wrong I can't imagine. The next problem is Toby Maguire. He was truly out of his depth in attempting to play Peter Parker/Spiderman as being conceited or evil after the black costume invades him. His performance is shockingly bad and he looks a right prat! As a result, Maguire's career was killed off and he was labelled box office poison. The villain of the Sandman worked a little better. If the plot had stuck with him and had avoided including the black Spiderman costume, then this film might have worked. The look that Harry Osborn had as the new Green Goblin was a lazy and unimaginative one. The running time is far too long, just under two hours would have been an improvement. The one saving grace, was the climax. It was quite well handled and there was a bit of tension. A disappointing finish after the brilliance of the first two films.