Not as good as I had hoped.

Rating: 5/10 (16 March 2008)

I really love the Spiderman franchise. Spidey 1 was great and spidey 2 was even better. So when they announced spiderman 3, I could barely wait. I was probably looking forward to this movie more than any others. And so was everyone else. I expected it to be completely awesome. But somewhere it fell short.
So the movie starts out pretty slow. Most movies have an action scene in the beginning to get you pumped up and then delve into the action. Not here, You get about 20 minutes of talking and then a 5 minute action scene, then another 30 minutes of talking. And another action scene. And even some of the action scenes where somewhat unimpressive, as if they had been thrown in there just to give you a break from all the drama. So the pacing of the movie was the biggest problem.
Another problem is sandman, He seemed like a pointless character and should have been thrown out so they could focus more on venom and new goblin. Because everyone just wanted to see venom, and in the end he was only given like 10 minutes of screen time.
Now all of the bad stuff aside. There were some good points. The special effects were spectacular and some of the action scenes where just amazing. And the ending was probably one of the coolest climaxes I have seen in any super hero movie. It's really a shame that they didn't give venom much screen time because they portrayed him perfectly.
Overall it was a decent movie on its own but It did not live up to the high expectations. If they had just cut some of the drama and put in more action it could have been so much better. For my rating I give it a 5/10