Review 2: Spider-Man 3

Rating: Null/10 (28 June 2007)

Spider-Man 3 is different from its previous sequels. More or less, some people will love this movie while others will not. It is a different Spider-Man movie, one maybe more darker and longer. This might be because Sam Raimi has the most control on what goes on in this movie and lets face it, Raimi specializes in horror movies. For directing Spider-Man, he does a pretty good job. For writing it, he might need some practice. Spider-Man movies are completely different than horror movies (like said in another review I wrote). I think some parts of Spider-Man 3 are memorable, but some are failures. The movie begins with Peter Parker finally having his alter ego Spider-Man being accepted. Peter's connection with Mary Jane is also going swimmingly and he is going to ask her to marry him. Just then, Peter is attacked by his friend Harry, who is trying to avenge his father. This conflict grows bigger as the movie goes on (but I'll get to that later). Meanwhile, a man, Flint Marko, has escaped prison and is trying to get money for his sick daughter. While on the run, he is mutated in a sand mixture and becomes the Sandman. With his sand like powers, attempts to steal money, and being the real killer of Peter's uncle, Peter cannot stop thinking about having revenge on the Sandman. Then suddenly, Peter wakes up with a new black Spider-Man outfit that is made from a substance that links itself to a host. This Spider-Man costume makes Peter darker and stronger. With it, he fights the Sandman and thinks to have killed him. Then things start to go wrong with M.J. and Peter. M.J. has lost her job and starts to think Peter isn't there for her. Eventually, she dumps him for Harry. Peter than becomes as dark as his feelings for revenge and hurts Harry, M.J., and Eddie Brock (a person who works for the Daily Bugle). Eddie seems to hate Peter more than the others and finds Peter trying to take his black spider man suit off in a church. The black substance from the suit falls on Eddie and he becomes the new Spider-Man villain Venom. In the end, Spider-Man 3 entertains us, buts lets us down with some bad dialogue and to many plots. It would be better that in the future, that if a Spider-Man 4 comes out, David Koepp or somebody from Spider-Man 2 should write it. The results of what people might think of this movie are split into three sides. Some will love it; some will find it different (me), and little will find it bad. So overall, this movie gets a B- from me.
-Ben Russell