Forced writing

Rating: 5/10 (15 November 2019)

Spiderman 3 had two very interesting villains - one who could 'demolecularize" into sand, and the other a snubbed photographer who links up with an alien critter after Spiderman manages to rid himself of it.
Sadly, the writing for this film is stilted, to force artificially and rapidly plot points that would otherwise take too long to reach because there are oh-so-many such plot points. The worst case-in-point is the deteriorating relationship between Spidey and MJ. It relies on a hilariously artificial set of misunderstandings, as well as completely un-Peter-Parker-characteristic public displays (e.g. a kiss on the lips of someone other than MJ during a celebration, with the mask purposely pulled up to make it 'wet'). Likewise, the contortions of Harry Osborn as frenemy are beyond plausible, and scientists operating a demolecularization device getting a weird reading are not going to say "Bah, just a bird, it'll fly away when we turn it on." As a scientist who operates expensive equipment at taxpayer's cost, I have to say this is plain ridiculous. Of course they would have a closed-circuit camera imaging the area of the experiment!
The writers could have streamlined this script while developing the stories of the villains better. All in all, it's either totally implausible (sandman's genesis) or totally annoying (MJ and Peter's deteriorating relationship) as executed. 5/10 because I did not leave as a happy camper, despite to villains with a lot of potential.