A step down, but not that bad

Rating: 5/10 (9 May 2007)

In the third installment of the Spider-Man franchise our favorite web swinger has to tackle his old friend Harry Osborn turned super villain, Flint Marko, a thug turned into a sandy super villain and Eddie Brock, a photographer with low morale who later turns into something worse. And let's not forget fighting inner demons caused by a living costume/goo from outer space.
Sure, it could be better, but it could also be worse. The problem as I see it, is too many story lines. Besides the ones already mentioned there's the MJ story and the Gwen Stacy story. While some of the subplots were given time to grow, others weren't. It felt like they were thrown into a space too small for them to grow in the pace they needed. Guess Raimi got a little too eager in the big candy shop that is the Spider-Man-universe, and I can't blame him.
On the plus side: the action scenes are very good and Thomas Hayden Church's portrayal of an ordinary man with bad luck, turned thug, turned super villain is good, memorable and makes you feels sympathy for the poor guy. Agreed, it's not as good as Spider-Man 2, but not bad either. It's good enough to watch more than a couple of times.