Hmmm....

Rating: 6/10 (5 May 2007)

I went to see this after seeing the good Spider-Man and its great sequel. Unfortunately this one, while still being OK, didn't quite measure up to the lofty heights of the first two, for a number of reasons.
The plot revolves around Peter Parker ( Tobey Maguire ) at a high point in his life- his relationship with Mary Jane ( Kirsten Dunst ) has never been better, he's getting top graders in his classes, and Spider-Man is now regarded as the hero that he truly is. However this is soon shattered as Harry Osborn ( James Franco ) begins to plot his revenge on Parker. Furthermore, Uncle Ben's killer, Flint Marko ( Thomas Haden Church ) has been transformed into something else- the Sandman. Add to that the new black costume, which is much more than it seems.
The fact is, that despite it being a two and a half hour movie, nothing gets truly covered well enough and there is the same fight sequence at the end of the movie. The best scene in the whole movie, in fact, involves Bruce Campbell as a hilarious waiter that seems to be channeling Inspector Clouseau. Many of the movies better moments, besides the action sense, involved humour in some way.
And then there's Venom, who they don't really know how to design as his head isn't quite big enough to look right. Instead it almost looks like his mouth has been drawn on separately with a life of its own.
Spider-Man 3 crams too much into one movie and as such has to use dumb plot devices to keep the story moving ( there is one near the end that will have people screaming 'why?!' ). It moves too fast for the plot to work, but it's the plot's too cumbersome and unwieldy anyway.