Utter s***e

Rating: 1/10 (10 May 2007)

Director Sam Raimi has made some great classics in his years of directing. This film is far from being a classic. The ending of Spider-Man 2 sets a great opening scene for the film. We see the hero (Toby Maguire) swinging from building to building with helicopters floating behind him. He then lands in his apartment and the next scene we seen him and his girlfriend Mary Jane (played by Kirsten Dunst) lying in one of his webs in a park. When he drops her off he gets attacked by Harry (James Franco) his old best friend from high school. With this scene within the first five minutes you expect the movie to be one of the most exciting things ever brought to the big screen. But Raimi fails to keep the suspense going.
A pointless dance scene in the kitchen between MJ and Harry makes you want to walk out of the cinema but it is then repeated buy Peter Parker as he is possessed by Venom. Trying to introduce one villain was hard enough for Raimi to do in previous films so why did he take on the challenge of introducing three? Venom, who is probably the most famous villain in the Spider-Man comics, has a total of ten minutes on-screen time. Where the Sand Man, who nobody has ever heard of, has at least thirty minutes. While Raimi is trying to give us a background to each villain we begin to get bored of the film and lose all concentration and get entangled in its own web.
The only things holding this film together are a great performance by James Franco's he portrays the mentally disturbed son of the Green Goblin as he takes on his own demons as well as Spider-Man, and astonishing special effects.
With a terrible performance from Toby Maguire and an average one from Kirsten Dunst the film is brought down all by itself. And finally with the cheesiest script and terrible dialogue the film fails to deliver the goods.