First Half Good, Second Half...

Rating: 2/10 (4 May 2007)

After I got in to the packed theater of people just waiting to see the 250 Million dollar movie that is Spider-Man 3, I was thinking through the first 30-45 minutes, "Hey, this is pretty good. Not as good as 1 or 2 but still it is good enough." Then everything just kind of started to fall a part. Right when Harry started to remember things is when it all change. Like with him winking at Peter and then a car roles by and he disappears? What is that? Is this Michael Myers here? And then after Parker put on the black suit and went emo and started to make weird jokes (which I still laughed at) I thought, "Did I leave Spider-Man awesomeness and walk into Fantastic Four?" There were so many problems after that it was just not, Sam Raimi or Spider-Man. It was just a series of jokes for the most part after that. And they lost all that the first two had done to build characters. Peter throughout the movie seemed cocky and not like the Parker we knew. Harry was just weird in his two different versions of himself. When he was the nice before the death of his dad Harry he seemed extremely different from Spider-Man 1. And then when he was "I will kill Spider-Man" his confrontations in dealing with it were different. They packed so much into that second half that it felt very rushed.
But I will mention some good things about this movie are it wasn't torture, Bruce Campell, and the special effects. The special effects were incredible they made some unbelievable effects with the Sandman, especially when they first introduced him as the Sandman. If I was judging only on the special effects it gets a 10 out of 10.
Now I think really the worst part of this movie is the editing, it felt like the first draft of a movie not what you would see on screen. And Venom in the movie was to brief for being the biggest baddest villain in all of Spider-Man. He also should have never been a guy in a suit, I could really tell. And in the movie he is just a fighter not the way I think of him. When he is really Venom is when Spidey is looking around and can't find him and then Venom's hands just come from above and grab him. And the other one is where Brock is not Venom and it is just a huge mass of Venom. That is VENOM! Venom should be like when you saw the Queen Alien in Aliens, just a huge monstrous villain that is just amazing to look at and at the same time terrifying. Besides Venom the script also needed some work in its structure and believability (I know this is a movie about Spider-Man), but when the stuff that forms Venom and the Black Suit falls to the ground just by Parker. That seemed to convenient for the story. What they should of done (and don't tell me they don't have the budget) is do what the TV show from the 1990s did and I believe the comics as well. In the show Jamison's son is as an astronaut (as in the movie) and on a trip to outer space they find the stuff which makes up Venom and the Black Suit. Then they take a sample back to Earth. Along the way as they enter the atmosphere the sample starts doing what it does and tries to morph onto them and then the ship gets out of control. They crash land into the Brooklyn Bridge, where Spider-Man comes to help and gets the stuff on him and that is how it should happen. It would be a great special effects shot which they could and it would be exciting.
So that is my review, if you are looking for a good time at the movies with nothing to do it is fine to watch but from someone who loves the Spider-Man series and knows why it was good, unless you need to, do not see this movie.
And all I have to say now is 250 Million Dollars for SAND?!?