fans of spiderman 1 and 2 will be disappointed!

Rating: 5/10 (6 May 2007)

i am a huge spiderman 1 and 2 fan ,in my opinion number 2.1 is the best of the three movies ,number 3 being the worst. the movie starts off fine enough and the first hour or so is great.,......after that you would be forgiven for thinking that maybe it wasn't raimi who directed the second half of the movie.
this is sadly a poorly written and directed movie with too many things going on at once to really focus on one defining plot....which it doesn't really have.
there are great scenes (the jazz club) some OK action (poor cgi is obvious at times ,and after sandmans initial appearance his effects get tiresome) and some real menace (venom ..when he finally shows up) but all in all its a lot of happy coincidence to get us from one scene to the other.some scenes even had the audience laughing while two main characters are sobbing their hearts out ,and the final battle is unfortunately an anti climax of epic proportions!!
it begs the question ,if your going to move that far away from the comics then why make a comic movie? the stories are all there ,the characters are there and the history is there ,i think the first 2 movies stuck true to the comics (albeit loosley) ,this one is very far removed and it suffers because of it!
maybe a new cast and director can breathe life back into the franchise ,because this installment just sufficated it