Too many glaring inconsistencies

Rating: 4/10 (15 May 2008)

I watched this film a second time this evening, and am just as dismayed by it as when I watched it in the theater. The film starts off great, but just sort of becomes unwieldy towards the end. One can almost tell when the film takes a turn for the worse.
The appearance of the ooze didn't seem to make much sense in the context of the film. Okay, I know that it was supposed to create a doppleganger effect with Peter, but at least they could have done it consistently. In the comics, the suit had a mind of its own, and that really wasn't fleshed out here until the suit attaches itself to Eddie Brock. In the movie, it was almost like Peter had a black suit fetish and turned bad because of it, versus the suit exerting its will on the host. This should have been made more clear in the film. It also would have warranted more sympathy for Peter if the film performed this differently. As it is, Peter is just someone pretending to be bad with a suit fetish.
This inconsistency among others (the general lack of spider sense throughout the film, for example) is what took me out of the film. I'm not against adding villains if it means that it enhances the drama, but in this case, adding the villains didn't do much but overwhelm the film to the point where it's almost incomprehensible. I find the last hour of the film almost unwatchable because of this.
The next Spider-man film will no doubtedly have Marvel Studios in full control. I wish they would do what they did to the Hulk, and pretend the Venom never existed in this one. A Venom reboot, if you will. I truly believe that if you dedicate your movie to just that one character alone as the villain, it will have more dramatic gravitas than all three villains have garnered in this film combined. Make it so, Marvel!