Biggest Waste of Potential Ever

Rating: 2/10 (4 May 2007)

I'm not a comic buff, all I did was watch the cartoon when I was a kid but that was one of the worst movies to ever grace the big screen.
The majority of the movie was Peter Parker crying in front of people. Whatever potential the movie had was squandered when Parker and Mary Jane split up. As soon as he started doing his John Travolta strut down the street, the movie was lost. The symbiote is supposed to turn Spiderman into a bad-ass, not some emo kid wanna-be playa. He even had an emo hairdo. Did no crime happen between defeating the Sandman and ditching the suit? Show us how Spiderman has changed by how he treats criminals. He may have tried to kill the Sandman but that's different. That was the man who killed his uncle, not just some random thug who robbed a grocery store.
Most ridiculous, though, was the shot of Spiderman landing in front of the American flag. That gave nothing to the movie. Everyone knows that Spiderman is American, there's no need to remind us of that. Never has a movie had so much potential and then squandered it all. This movie felt as though it were a spoof of itself. There was too much stupid humor and attempts to teach us moral values.
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The only redeeming part of the movie was the first battle with Harry Osbourn and then the final battle with Venom and the Sandman. The rest of the movie felt half-assed. What was the point of introducing Venom only to kill him 15 minutes later?
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I can honestly say this was the closest I have ever come to walking out on a movie. I felt cheated of my ticket price and of my two and a half hours. No movie has ever let me down more than Spiderman 3.