Decent action flick, but the weakest of the trilogy. Wait for video.

Rating: 6/10 (6 May 2007)

First let me say that I'm a big fan of the review written by this guy: http://www.imdb.com/user/ur15235922/comments I agree with every word he wrote. In fact, I liked his review better than I liked the movie.
I really *wanted* to enjoy this movie. You have to truly *want* to enjoy in order to like it at all. I left the theater feeling slightly entertained, but only because I strongly yearned for it.
The movie is weak from beginning to end. It has all the parts needed for a great action flick, but with no continuity. All the separate scenes felt disjointed and slopped together. The characters go through changes almost at random, every 5 minutes. Peter Parker's comic change in the middle of the movie was over the top, but it worked for me. It was meant to be comical and it was. The rest of his emotions were almost ridiculous. Every time he cried the opening-night audience around me laughed hysterically.
I won't ruin the ending. I don't need to. Just think, "cliche" and you already know the ending. The movie was drowning in sappy emotion towards the end. I can just imagine the writers of this script sitting around saying to each other, "Everyone does movies with non-stop action til the end. Let's deliver a real message." I choked on that message as it was crammed down my throat.
And in the end, they finished off with even more sappy emotion which left me totally unsatisfied. No uplifting joy at the end of this movie. Even as the credits rolled, it was a soft, slow, almost depressing music that played.
All around, just BLAH. Wait for the DVD rental.