poorly made movie with some good action scenes

Rating: 5/10 (11 June 2008)

The first Spider-Man movie was a poorly considered mess, while the second one was sloppy but fairly satisfying. Apparently the mild heights the second one attained were too much for the filmmakers, who fell to abysmal lows in the third entry.
What is good about Spider-Man 3 is the special effects. The first appearance of the sand man is pretty impressive. The action scenes are lively. There's also a cute bit when Peter turns into a smarmy egotist (over all the dual personality thing was less Jekyll & Hyde than it was The Nutty Professor).
The rest of it is all terrible, tedious drawn out dramatic scenes detailing Peter Parker's soap opera-ish troubles. And like the first movie, the script completely falls apart in the end, with some really ludicrous contrivances.
It's a super-hero movie with some good fights, and if you let your brain go blank that's all you need, but it is in no way good movie making.