Decent sequel but not up to the original or Spiderman 2

Rating: Null/10 (15 July 2007)

Spiderman 3 is not as good as Spiderman or Spiderman 2 but for a sequel it's not terrible. Spiderman has to fight three enemies: Sandman, Venom and New Goblin. He also has to fight to maintain his love relationship with Mary Jane (Kirsten Dunst). Spidey doesn't do a very good job with any of these problems.
An early on chase between New Goblin and Spiderman through the skyscrapers of the city is the best action sequence in the film. Although there are many other chases and fights, they don't seem as exciting. Maybe it's because the film is almost 2 1/2 hours and it sometimes drags.
Credit to director Sam Raimi who is, in my opinion, the best action director working today. He does give a lot of screen time to develop the relationships between Spiderman and James Franco who blames him for killing his father and between Spiderman and Mary Jane. Besides that, Raimi has to introduce two new characters, Thomas Hayden Church as Sandman and Topher Grace as Venom.
Look for Ted Raimi, Sam's brother, who he always gives a small part to and who, as usual, is very funny, and also for Bruce Campbell, another actor who is always in Raimi's films, who is a riot as a French maitre d' and whose part got big laughs from the audience.