Soooo disappointed

Rating: 6/10 (7 May 2007)

Well, where do I start, I guess I'll outline some of the good and the bad. The special effects team did a great job especially with the final action sequence although I thought some of the venom sequences were a little poor, such as when venom was talking the mouth movements looked quite bad and Eddie Brock's teeth changing to fangs permanently looked pretty stupid. Kirsten Dunst looked great, I thought she looked awful in Spiderman 2. Great to see the return of certain characters such as J Jameson, the Russian landlord, his daughter and the thug from number 1, not to mention Harry Osbourne who gave the best performance in the movie, he really gives a good show of conflicting emotions. The negatives are based primarily on a lot of cheesy acting. I know they were trying to show extremes between good and evil but dancing stupidly down the street? terrible child actors proclaiming "wicked, cool!",the annoying news reporter on scene for the final showdown, not to mention that Spider-man's heroic entry at the final battle shows the American flag flying behind him, disgusted flashback to Super-man (1978) anyone? The film never really explores Sandman's story properly, we learn his daughter is dying but not why, we learn Flint was trying to get money to pay for treatment but not what kind of treatment. He says he's not a bad guy but a guy who had bad luck, we know Flint killed Uncle Ben and his "justifying story" really has no justification and we're supposed to have sympathy for this guy? Besides all this information we know from the previews and trailers, no more information is given in the movie which is kinda annoying. The origin of Venom isn't explored properly, Harry Osbourne isn't really given enough screen time to give his character justice, consider that they've been teasing it for two movies and he gets half a dozen short scenes to wrap it all up!, all in all, having three opponents for spidey is all well and good if you can explore them properly, this is never really done but they did make for some great action sequences. I would also say it's a very soppy movie in that it features A lot of singing, dancing and extravagant dresses, it was mostly a chick flick with undertones of comic action. All in all, a chick flick crossed with an action movie. If you're a fan of the comics then this won't satisfy you as it doesn't explore the characters properly, although it is cool to see such infamous villains brought to life. If you're an action movie fan the action scenes are great but you will probably get bored by the chick flick scenes and vice versa, chick flick fans might get bored of the action scenes, but these tend to be over reasonably fast. I loved Spider-man and I liked Spider-man 2 a lot but I was so disappointed by Spider-man 3 that I have had to write my views immediately. Franco rocked as Harry and Simmons was great as Jonah, apart from that I cringed in my seat as opposed to sitting on the edge with excitement, wait for the rental, cheaper and you can pause it occasionally to recover from the awful cheesy moments for which Sam Raimi can not be forgiven. I looked forward to this for a long time, I am very, very disappointed.