Great second half of film...rushed first half!

Rating: 8/10 (4 May 2007)

I went into the cinema expecting a crap film after reading several reviews and some user comments, but I found the film to be better than the first two films in some ways. This was not like your usual spider-man film as it contained a lot more humour and daft scenes that were not necessary, also some scenes were done but not done with enough detail. For example, the scenes where the symbiote crash lands on a meteor seems out of place as it happens right next to peter and mj - without them realising! Also, the whole sandman killing uncle Ben is put straight in and (the most important some might say) venom's transformation happened with about 50 mins left of the film however he only fully appeared with about 30 mins to go. Venom's fight with spidey is cut short and should have been a lot longer but hey, we got venom in the movie and he was done pretty well. Some people are saying that the scenes with "Emo" peter are poor and pointless, but it is only showing what the symbiote has done to peter and how his behaviour changes. At my cinema the whole audience applauded at the end, although the slow beginning (that was probably building up to the battle royal at the end)- which was well worth the admission price- the film does get better and i would say that it is only slightly worse (overall) than spidey 2. I give the film 8 out of 10 for the superb battle scenes and for the way that it builds up the finale (minus the pathetic news report of fight at the end)plus the emotion at the end. I hope that if they do another film, then they allow some more time to develop scenes, etc before going all out for the action - still a great film though.