not horrible, yet very disappointing

Rating: 6/10 (27 May 2007)

I'm not one to complain of the length of movies ( I can watch the lengthen versions of the lord of the rings easily!) but I felt poor editing and writing left Spidey 3 making me squirm in my seat waiting for the end of the movie. Although the action and special effects on sandman were excellent, the story lacked reason and in many cases logic. I found that the whole Ben Parker murder was completely unnecessary to the story, (not to mention I m still not sure how Marko accidentally killed Ben Parker). The harry Osborne thing could of been a whole movie in itself, and it would have been better also. Not being a comic book reader, I didn't get the whole Venom story, which they hardly explained at all. I was thoroughly entertained by Toby Maguire's less then spectacular performance as Emo Peter, especially when I was not suppose to laugh. Gwen Stacy seemed completely unnecessary to the story, and the romance story between Mary Jane and Peter had some potential but was handled badly and left me asking myself "What was the point of that?!?!?" All in all, it could have been much better, but trying to cram too many villains in the film messed it up. It was not bad, but disappointed compared to Spidey 2