May as well skip it.

Rating: 4/10 (6 May 2007)

Spider-man 3 has a lot of things going for it. A terrific cast, a great director, and the biggest budget of any action movie I have ever seen. But still, despite all of this, the movie fell quite short.
My biggest complaint was the plot. It was just way too chaotic. It seemed like Raimi had this idea for an epic movie with all these villains and new characters and would somehow manage to tie it up in a nice little package to leave the viewing audience satisfied with this supposed ending to the Spider-man franchise. But it didn't work. The only new character that was really given any depth was Thomas Hayden Church's Sandman. But sadly, it was all wasted. He should have been more of the focus of the film rather focusing on the build-up of Eddie Brock's transformation into Venom--who I think should not have even been in the movie at all. The whole movie just seemed really rushed despite its 2 hour and 20 minute run time. There was just way too much going on at once.
But the film did have a few redeeming qualities. The humor was great. It wasn't too overdone and made the film really enjoyable. Especially Bruce Campbell's best cameo yet. I was in stitches.
The action sequences were also quite a spectacle. Raimi has a great skill for handling these fast paced action scenes involving Spider-man and manage to make them chaotic enough to be exciting, but coherent enough to be able to know what is going on.
If it weren't for these two redeeming aspects, I would have out right hated Spider-man 3. So I would say that it is best to skip this chapter. You'll save yourself headache.