Could of been sooooooo much better

Rating: 5/10 (1 December 2007)

I watched this film again last night, hoping that on this occasion, unlike at the cinema were i just thought it was OK, i'd find it to be a much more enjoyable experience. I was wrong. The film is just sloppy. Lots of very good scenes but overall a mess.
(CONTAINS SPOILERS)
1. Every villain in the trilogy is tied in with Peter Parker somehow (Green Goblin, Doc Ock, Goblin Jr. & Venom), but not Sandman. So to drag him into Peter Parker's personal world, he's re-conned into being the killer of Uncle Ben. Why! One of the tragedies of being Peter Parker is that he could of stopped his uncle's killer before he killed him, but chose not to, and now he has to live and learn from that. But not anymore. Would it of been soooooooo bad if this super-villain just didn't have a Peter Parker connection? And why mess with an important part of the Spider-man history.
2. Too many villain's and not enough time to develop them sufficiently. One good villain would of vastly improved this movie, and the sub-plot of Harry could of been left simmering throughout ready for the next film.
3. The butler telling Harry that his father was killed with his own glider??? Putting this in at this late a date is insulting our intelligence. Surely better for the butler to of discovered this after seeing into the hidden back room and recognising the weapon that killed his father near the end of this movie.
4. Too much soppy falling out, getting back together with MJ. Not bad in itself, but it already been done to death in the other two films.
5. Very convenient that Eddie Brock just happened to be in the church as Spider-man gets rid of his black costume. At least if he'd followed him in it would of removed the stupid co-incidence.
6. Aunt May's function seems to just be there to lay on the guilt and moralise, a waste of a good character.
7. Why do the film makers have Peter Parker remove his mask at every available opportunity, that's just dumb. Just one photo took of Spider-man without his mask and his secret identity is blown forever.
There were of course good things in this film, and lots of them, but they just got swamped. I did wonder while watching it if they could of edited out some of the scenes in this movie to give it a sharper narrative, and then hold these already filmed scenes back for the next movie, which would of helped both productions.