Brilliant, despite critique reviews

Rating: 9/10 (8 May 2007)

Reading some of the reviews a few hours before I went to see the movie, I thought people weren't looking hard enough into some of the cheesiness and strange mix of scenes that the movie indeed held.
The movie was an emotional roller-coaster. I was almost in tears in some parts (MJ forced to breakup with Peter), really shocked in others (Emo-Peter slapping MJ), and really excited in most (VENOM!!). In the end, the strange order of all the scenes and how everything is introduced so quickly, though can easily be disregarded as poor directing, has a meaning beneath it - it was to make us feel the stress and insanity Peter gains from all these events.
The movie seemed to start with a huge scattering of events... they were flying everywhere, it was hard to get a hold on what the hell was going on. Then, during the last half of the movie, all the events very neatly came back into order - the way things were solved was very interesting. Harry's head-injury, his way of realizing his memories again, and his death was very well thought out.
Gwen Stacey, Venom, and Symbiote Spidey were very well tied in together. The way Venom collected the symbiote off SpiderMan, the way Gwen Stacey became another 'love' of Peter, and the whole story of Eddie Brock really gave another dimension.
There are such mixed opinions in this film I can only suggest you go and watch it for yourself - don't let any reviews disappoint you nor excite you. I watched this movie with an open mind, and wasn't just there for the action... And I truly think this was a really well-developed movie, despite the fact that many superhero movies like this are rarely 'masterpieces'.
-Rhys