Not as Good as the Other Two

Rating: 6/10 (13 May 2007)

The first two Spiderman movies were something of comic book greatness. For almost 3 years the most anticipated movie has been Spiderman 3, and when the movie opened in theaters I can surely say that it was probably one of the most disappointing movies of the year (especially under the hype) and failed to match the creative level of it's predecessors. The movie almost immediately starts off after the Second one where Peter Park narrates about how his life is so great! Things only go down from there as he gets relationship advice from his grandmother. Basically what is supposed to be an action movie is just pure boring banter for the first twenty minutes. Then a nice fight sequence between Peter Park and Harry Osbourne (AKA The Green Goblin) it ends up with him somehow getting amnesia and forgetting his hatred toward Peter. The movie completely strays into absurdness after that, with a story about an Ex-Criminal looking for medicine to save his kid (who only appears in one scene) and somehow ends up in a weird machine that turns him into Sandman! Then there is a mysterious alien symbiote comes from outer space and soon takes over Peter making him into an emo-wannabe with a cool looking dark suit. Along with an slimy journalist named Eddie Brock whose hatred toward Peter Park manifests after he gets him fired and how yet he gets the symbiote attached to himself. The movie is a hodge-podge of information pretty much left for a two on two fight sequence (which is probably what the writers wanted from the beginning). The movie is over sappy especially Peter Parker (He's supposed to be funny not a lover-boy). Probably a big problem of the movie is that Spiderman's life is going so well that his girlfriends starts to fall apart. But since Mary Jane isn't a Superhero it really isn't that interesting. Overall disappointing movie, they should have followed the comic book outline (where the symbiote comes from outer space and attaches itself onto a spaceship that Spiderman stops) and eliminated the Sandman totally he served almost no purpose. Good fighting sequences but the movie just wasn't enough.