Disappointing, Predictable and Over the top.

Rating: 1/10 (2 June 2009)

I'll go through the good points of the film first although these are few in number. Firstly the effects are very good and so they should be considering the substantial budget this film had, the fight scenes are exciting and packed with action and the general idea for the storyline is good (with both Venom and Sandman) however this is also one of the major shortcomings.
All of the characters even Peter himself are poorly defined. As a lot of other critics have noted Venom gets around 10-15 minutes of airtime with almost no character development. Peter's 'dark' side is almost laughable as half of the film is spent observing him doing incredibly outlandish and over the top things that just look ridiculous, from walking down the street acting suave and trying to chat up ladies to a 2 minute dance scene in a jazz club. This reflects poorly on Tobey Maguire's acting which is usually pretty good but throughout the film he seems slightly fake and detached.
Overall I was very disappointed by the film often finding myself 20 minutes ahead of the action guessing CORRECTLY exactly what was going to happen. Honestly the script is so predictable its unreal.
Perhaps I'm being too harsh, but for such a highly anticipated film I was expecting much, much more.