Spiderman thinks he has found balance in his life but of course that isn't the case

Rating: 1/10 (5 May 2007)

I like Spiderman. I have seen the first two movies multiple times each and I have never read the comic books, so my opinion is not biased in that manner. I hated "SpiderMan 3". It is terrible and I'll try to explain to you why. It's terrible with its characters, dialogue, action, plot development and ending.
The writers in the first two movies managed to characterize the main characters in an interesting, complex and real way. But with this movie it is like they forgot what made the characters interesting to watch. They turned Peter Parker into a clueless dope who couldn't understand why anything went wrong. They turned Mary-Jane into a clingy and unsympathetic 'damsel in distress'. The writers got lazy with Harry and had him have a head injury and conveniently forgot everything that has happened in the past two movies...only to remember again (this is an instance where the movie was overly long and could have been cut). Now, the villains were even worse. Firstly, they should have chosen one villain for this one because having two villains made the movie to packaged and it didn't leave enough time to properly introduce the characters. And that lead to them trying to make the Sandman character sympathetic but it didn't work because the film makers didn't take the proper amount of time to do that. On top of that the film makers put in the vengeful Venom character, which I do think they introduced well which leads me to conclude that they should have cut Sandman and left him for a later movie. Another character they should have cut altogether was Gwen. If it was just Venom as the villain then she would have worked. But she really didn't have any point in this movie other than make Mary-Jane jealous.
The dialogue was terrible and you would have to watch the movie to truly understand why (but don't watch it) The last two Spiderman movies had great action. This one fell short. The action scenes were few and far apart. And the action scenes they did have were cluttered and hard to follow. One of the first Sandman scenes they decided to use a shaky camera which didn't do anything to benefit the scene but it did make it difficult to watch. The end battle scene was actually set up well and executed well but it does not compensate for the rest of the movie.
The entire plot wasn't good. As I have said before they should have left out one of the villains. But more than that they shouldn't have focused on Peter and Mary-Jane and their issues as much. The whole Gwen jealously was completely pointless. And that lead to a horrible dance scene that was uncomfortable to watch. Another thing that bothered me was that they somehow resolved all the problems that were set up in the second movie. It would have been nice if the movie makers put more continuity from the second to third one.
The ending was truly terrible. It was a good action scene that lead to a contrived finish.
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