not worth the 10 bucks on opening night...

Rating: 4/10 (6 May 2007)

I don't expect much from action movies other than explosions and good stimulation, but when, despite fairly low expectations about overall quality, an action movie's still bad, that means it's pretty bad. A lot of things in this movie flat out don't make sense. Is Peter Parker (some sort of physics genius) REALLY so stupid that he doesn't know how to listen to MJ when she's literally crying? There's too many bad guys thrown into this movie, and everyone is created from, uh-oh--! a science experiment gone wrong! So do people running nuclear experiments not notice ENORMOUS threats to their experiments, which are probably meticulously planned and executed and probably cost thousands per experiment? And if spiderman has to turn to the dark side (which he probably should, given how lily-white he is) why can't this be born out of his own internal struggles, rather than that creepy oil stuff? I also thought that could have been a lot more fun than uncombed hair and bad dancing--like when Christopher Reeve as Superman went bad. He was bad, but not over the top, or too comical not to be scary. And WHERE is the spidey-sense? Things in this movie frequently pop out of no where to attack spiderman, who appears to not have spideysense at all in this movie. Bottom line: more of the same, but not necessarily at the same level as the other two movies. The effects for the Sand man were pretty good, but the rest of the action is the same as we've already seen.