An Honest Review

Rating: 7/10 (16 November 2016)

It is too much, far too much, that is where the movie failed. It assumed that there needed to be more, more villains, more action, higher stakes, and at the end the film suffered for it.
The Green Goblin, Venom, the Sandman, there were three major villains and three villain stories to tell and as a result the film lost focus.
Not that it didn't have it's charms.
Topher Grace isn't exactly the buff Eddie Brock we know from the comic books, but he works splendidly in a Raimi vision of Spider Man. He is the perfect foil for Tobey Maguire's character.
Thomas Haden Church doesn't exactly fall to the bottom either. He adds a depth to a character that is allowed only so little screen time in a jumbled film.
The problem isn't with the cast, the cast was great. And as usual Raini does an excellent job at directing.
It's not as horrible as people say.
The problem comes in with the plot itself, the script, there was too much.
The tags the trailers, everything hinted towards Venom and Venom should have been the driving force behind the film. Had they stayed with a singular villain and not cut the movie into three little plot lines, it would have been a nicely streamlined success.
Instead, however, they tried to throw too many at the audience at once, just like they did with the Batman movies, and just like Batman Forever and Batman and Robin, Spider Man 3 became a disjointed mess of a film.