An enjoyable mess!

Rating: 6/10 (22 May 2020)

This movie is undoubtedly the Achilles heel of the trilogy and has a lot of bad things going for it. The romance is dumb, and it paints both MJ and especially Peter as jerks (Peter even before he got the symbiote, he literally kisses a woman in front of his girlfriend and is like *oh that was spiderman not me*. And he was even the one who suggested that they kiss!). The dialogue is still cheesy and the script is mediocre. As most point out, this movies biggest flaw is the overabundance of plot points and villains. Peter is having relationship troubles with MJ, Sandman does bad stuff do find money for his daughter, Harry has plot injur.. i mean amnesia (and just so happens to forget somehting that happened a while back and undoubtedly shook him to his core), sandman is retconed into uncle Bens death to connect him to Spiderman and make things personal (honestly it wouldnt be bad if Raimi gave us ONE villain that doesn't have a connection to Peter), Harry, Peter and MJ have a love triangle AND if those weren't enough the symbiote takes over Peter and Peter destroys Eddie Brocks life cause he's a (bigger) douchebag now. Apparently Raimi didn't want to include Venom but was forced from Sony due to his popularity, so he had to make a new script to include the whole symbiote arc, and it shows. Also Venoms suit and voice are bad. That being said the movie is still very employable. The actors are great, Sandman is a great villain and so is Harry thanks to Raimi building him up since the first movie, the visuals are by far the best in the trilogy (that sandman scene is amazing) and most importantly, the action is in my opinion great and tons of fun! So, despite the movie being a total mess, it still is tons of fun thanks to the 2 previous movies and the great action it offers. So I'll just pretend the emo Peter dance scene never existed and give this a 6/10