Long-time fans of Spidey or fans of competent storytelling should avoid this one!

Rating: 1/10 (7 May 2007)

It appears painfully obvious that Sam Raimi is not as good a writer as he is a director. The writing for this film is beyond mediocre and insults my intelligence as a film and comic book aficionado. All of the characters in Spider-man 3 do not interact as normal human beings would in real life. This hurts the emotional connection you're supposed to make with Peter Parker, Mary Jane and Harry Osborn. This stems from someone who does not understand how to write real characters into a script. These are not the same characters who I loved watching in the first two films, these are imposters. It seems even the actors know they are in a bad film because they give a boring and dishonest performance. One of the reasons people go to see a Spider-man film is because of the creative villains. In Spider-man 3 both the Sandman and Venom get cheated out of screen time to serve the purpose of continuing the badly written love triangle between the main characters. The only time I smiled and was mildly interested was when Aunt May gave Peter advice or when J.J. was doing his comedic part. Sadly they get very little screen time as well.
I think Spider-man 3 was ironically the end of Spider-man for all the die-hard fans that turned up for the superior Spider-man 1 and 2.