Not everything magically turns Out for the best in the end

Rating: 3/10 (4 May 2007)

This is the first review I've ever written on this page, and I'm a long-time user, so I believe it counts for something when I say that I didn't really like this, the third movie of the series. As a fan I really don't want to say this, because like everyone else I've been waiting for this movie for three years in hopes of some kind of epic blockbuster to come out of it. It is therefore that I with heavy heart have to declare Spider-man 3 the biggest "suppose-to-be-blockbuster" flop of the year.
Where to begin? Oh yeah, the characters! All very nice done from a visual point of view. However, there could have been room for much more development of the characters, had one been removed from the story. I think the obvious choice would have been The Sandman, thereby also removing the whole "This is your uncles real killer" BS and a lot of scenes with grown men crying. Don't get me wrong. There should be room for that to in a movie like this, but I think Raimi over exaggerated just a little bit when it came to writing these scenes. Enough is enough! Also, had The Sandman been left out of the script, it would have given Venom a chance to live up to his comic self, who by the way is almost unbeatable. However Spider-Man manages to finish him of in less than ten minutes, and almost entirely by himself. Let's face it! Movie-Venom is a pathetic loser compared to the Venom from the comics, who we all love to hate. Finally the one thing I hated most about The Sandman was his origin. I am, of cause, thinking of the sand spinning machine in witch he gets caught. I know that the movie is not supposed to be believable, but this is pushing it. Even for a comic-to-movie adaptation. They don't even try to explain what it does and to what purpose, it is simply just there.
It's not that I didn't give the movie a chance. Through the first half of it, I credited it for the way it stuck to the comic genre, maybe a little too much, but none the less. Then as it progressed with scene upon scene with raw action I thought to myself: "This might just work out." However, it did not. And if so, it was very poorly done. There was no kind of release to these scenes, and at the end of the movie I wanted it to continue. It was like something was missing. And then I realized that it was a proper ending, or at least just an ending. That would have been nice. It was like Raimi and the other writers had reached the point in the script, where they were suppose to place a proper ending, and then, in stead of doing so, put in the words: "Everything magically turns out for the best within about ten minutes or so The End." Realizing now, as I write this, that the whole movie actually needed release. One should think that this was what disappointed me most about the film. However, it was not. It's not that I'm anti-American or anything like that, but when Spidey stopped for a photo op. in front of the good old red, white and blue, while the love of his life is in the hands of a psychotic super villain, I felt like I wouldn't be able to say one decent thing about the film. Luckily I came up with a couple, which leads to the rating of the movie.
It gets two stars because it stays true to the comic style. Then it receives a single star for the Goblin-Spidey relationship at the end. And a final star simply because I don't wish to give a Spider-Man movie less than four out of ten stars.
I really hope they go through with the fourth movie, and that it makes up for predecessor.