A sad ending does not necessarily a bad movie make!!

Rating: 7/10 (7 April 2010)

I've just finished watching the DVD of both Spiderman sequels tonight. That was after reading glowing reviews about Spiderman 2 and mediocre/bad reviews about Spiderman 3. Now I know why. The former ended on a high and the latter didn't. OK, people thought there were too many super(anti)heroes in the 3rd one. Maybe, but I thought it balanced out alright. But one should not be too quick to judge the film based on the way you feel about the ending. I thought 2 was really slow to get going and didn't really move until the science demonstration by the good doctor. And the only real action was on the train. In contrast, 3 had me hooked from the beginning. All these little stories popping up. In fact the best line of the movie was Peter Parker's when he was emptying sand out of his boots: "Where do all these guys keep coming from?" followed closely by: "Oh God, I hate these!" when his mate was throwing spinning blades at him.
My actual criticism will surprise most people, and that was, that for $200 million plus, the effects were disappointing. I was ready to be blown away by them but they seemed to be pretty run-of-the-mill in comparison to the first two movies and other films of that ilk (the effects in Superman Returns were better, to be honest). I mean, that Sandman (when he was huge, towards the end of the movie)looked like he had been drawn on the film by a kid, for goodness sake.
All in all, ten for ambition, seven for entertainment value (and that's the only category any review should really be marked upon).