Three Isn't The Magic Number For Spidey

Rating: 5/10 (9 May 2012)

Sam Raimi has lost his touch here. He made two masterpieces with Spider-Man and Spider-Man 2 but this threequel doesn't impress much. It is clear that the $250,000,000 has been spent on making the effects amazing but at times they're very shabby, not what you'd expect from a film with so much money spent on it. But one of the main problems is the ultimately vital character driven story. Well...there really isn't one. Tobey Maguire has become more soppy than a reviewer's tissue after watching Titanic II. The script makes Peter what he shouldn't be- a guy who's full of himself. At least Thomas Haden Church gives a great leverage to the plot. His role as The Sandman is very emotional and has a lot of feeling to it. And James Franco finally does what fans have waited for and gone to the psychotic and dark side his father went to. After seeing this, there's no wonder Spider-Man 4 was pulled.