Good, but weaker than the first two

Rating: 7/10 (6 May 2007)

I really liked the first spiderman movie and thought that the second was even better. I went to spiderman 3 hoping it would be the best, and was a little disappointed. It is a good movie, and of all Spiderman movies it definitely has the best action. But as far as the story goes, I think Sam Raimi tried to do way too many things at one time. There's's the story of Harry and Pete's rivalry, Pete and Mary Jane's relationship troubles, the origin and motives of the Sandman, the story of the symbiote and spiderman, and then finally the story of Eddie Brock and Venom. It seems like it would have worked so much better as two separate movies, the sybiote and venom story alone is enough for a two hour movie. And since it kept jumping back and forth between characters and settings, it was hard to get into something because you were quickly knocked out of it shortly after. The acting and comedy is just as good as it's ever been, it's just the pacing that hurt the performances. Like I said, it's good, but really should have been split into two movies.