Not bad...but not as good as the first two

Rating: 6/10 (19 May 2007)

I went into Spider-Man 3 thinking it was going to be the best of the three. From the first to the second, you could definitely see a huge improvement. The special effects had improved, and the actors were comfortable in their characters by now, and the story just sucked me into the movie, wanting to see what happened next scene after scene. In the third installment of the Spier-Man series, I was not pulled into the movie at all. I didn't once feel anticipation, besides when i first walked into the theater. I kept looking at my watch wondering when it was finally going to be over.
I felt as if the special effects had sunken back down to how they were in the first installment. but they got away with it because it was the first. By the third, they should be spectacular! The script seemed slow and poorly written. The actors had seemed to lose the fire they had built up in their characters in the second, given, that could also be a script problem. Tobey Maguire seemed a little different in Spidey's shoes, and Kirsten Dunst seemed uncomfortable with her character. And James Franco...lets just say he did not "avenge" Willem Dafoe's character very well.
Some of the parts were good though, don't get me wrong. The beginning was good, and the ending was almost as spectacular as the action scenes in the second Spider-Man. New characters, Venom, Sandman and Gwen Stacey, are well portrayed by actors, Thomas Haden Church, Topher Grace and Bryce Dallas Howard.
I'd say this movie was average, not in the horrible section, but not on the must see list. Overall, I think this movie is just a disappointment to all the built up excitement many fans had.