Not bad.

Rating: 7/10 (26 June 2010)

A lot of people hate this film for several reasons. Yes they were pretty convincing reasons, but it didn't destroy the whole film for me either. I enjoyed the action scenes, which is the main lead to enjoying an "action" film, the story was all right, even though it could have had less plot holes, the characters were decent enough, and it followed nicely with the comics.
The villains could have been better though. Not that I didn't want them in there, they just could have been better developed. I was excited as heck when I found out that Venom was going to be in there. When I saw it in theaters, that was what I was looking forward to the entire film. Then when it finally got to him, I was utterly disappointed. 2 minutes and 30 seconds total screen time with Venom, not counting when he's got his face lashed back into Eddie Brock. And how much time do we get with the Sandman, like a lot more. Their screen time should have been switched. Heck, they could have done the film without Sandman. What was he needed for? Did they really need the subplot of Sandman really killing uncle Ben? I don't think so.
The romantic struggle between Peter and Mary Jane, although a little stupid, still gets a lot of emotion put into the film. And the New Goblin, aka Harry, who loses his memory after an accident, forgets that he wants Peter dead, which regains his friendship with him.
We also get introduced to the symbiote, who becomes attached to Peter's Spider-Man outfit, and slowly tortures him into insanity, turning him from a pathetic nerd to a ruthless emo person. The two dumbest things in this film are emo Peter, and the dance scene.
Emo Peter is supposed to be tortured by the suit, yet he's hopelessly addicted to it. Yet soon after he gets it, a montage of him walking around the street acting goofy to each girl that comes by, is just plain silly. The dance scene is the worst. A scene where we jumps around a jazz club, swinging on lamps and sliding on chairs. It looks like a deleted scene from the movie Chicago. Its hard to see the pain he goes through when he's jumping around dancing. The scene did not have to be that silly, nor did the Emo Peter scene have to be.
Still though, the action was great, the characters and dialogue went well, the emotion throughout the entire film is just great, and it follows through with the comics almost perfectly. Although they could have had a lot more Venom time, and a lot less plot holes, it still holds out as a perfectly good comic book based film. Despite it being the worst of the series, its still a watchable film that I can see anytime.