Messy cut and sad end of a great series

Rating: 6/10 (6 May 2007)

The Spider-Man films have been amongst the better of the flood of super-hero movies to come out of the US after 9/11. Peter Parker was always a refreshing, nerdy take on the super-hero, and decent characters combined with lovely effects, art-direction, lovable cast, and dialog made the first movie great, the second a bit less so.
Sadly, the third installment of Spider-Man fails to impress as much as it's predecessors. Here, we meet a new and interesting Parker and company, but it somehow feels constructed. The characters reasoning becomes clichés, uninspiring and hard to relate to. There are also allot of new faces in this movie. Whether it's setting the stage for a follow-up, or just a means to trying to top the previous movies, they simply become to many in too little time, making the movie in some ways resembling Parker's own way of swinging through the city from action to action.
Probably, there will be a director's cut of this movies at some point, and if it adds another 30-40 minutes of film allowing us to get to know the characters better, Spider-Man 3 might as well score as high as eight. But for now however, with all it's swinging about, it's a six.