It wasn't bad but.....

Rating: 7/10 (19 May 2007)

I thought the movie's finale tied up the disparate elements together pretty well but I did find problems with the main body of the film. The singing and dancing scenes were completely wrong; they weren't so much a new direction to take the movies in as they made the movie feel like it was just getting lost; they made it feel like another movie interrupted this one.
CGI notwithstanding, I didn't find the Sandman character a very intriguing villain (but I did like the scene with him at the end when he was in human form). Wouldn't that science experiment that he just tumbled onto have been better protected? Yes, there was razor wire but it just seemed to happen too easy.
I'm not a fan of the comic books so I was confused about Venom. Venom is black goop, Venom is the black suit, Venom is an alien, first he's Peter, then he's this other guy. When Peter and Venom became separated and Venom went to that other guy, I thought it started getting interesting again.
Throughout the last two movies, I have just grown tired of Harry Osborne's whining about his father's death. Peter finally says the sentence that should have been said long ago "Your father caused his own death" which is corroborated by the butler.
On the up side, I thought Bryce Dallas Howard was just stunning.
I thought it was okay, lots of action scenes, a few too many things going on, Sandman was underdeveloped, too much singing and dancing but it was okay.