Disappointing

Rating: 5/10 (1 November 2007)

It has taken me a while to watch this third instalment of Spiderman and I can't say it was worth the wait.I found it to be definitely too long,cheesy and also a bit on the childish side.It lasts for over two hours and that is at least 20 minutes too long.One thing that I have never been convinced about with these Spidey films is the casting of Tobey Maguire as Peter Parker.He comes across as just too much of a geek.His relationship with Mary Jane is also very tedious and has always slowed the films down way too much for me.
It isn't all bad.Thomas Haden Church gives a fine performance as Sandman and the CGI of this character is excellent.Some of the action scenes are well done but a film needs so much more than that nowadays.I felt that the story dragged far too much at times and the scenes where Peter Parker becomes a macho man were just plain embarrassing.
Maybe this is one Spiderman too many but my guess is that there will be another one.It needs to be better than this effort.