The "Me Decade" has found its heroes.

Rating: 7/10 (18 May 2007)

Spider-Man 3 is a film with its moments, both in action and script.
However, the parties involved all come off as self-obsessed, either for the careers, personal lives or whatnot to notice what is really going on around them. Now...I realize we ALL are to a degree, what with our life being the most important in some respect, but when Spider-Man fails to come off as 'heroic' and can't see obvious warning signs you have to wonder.
Bruce Campbell is a shining light in this one as the Maitre D'...offering some sorely needed comic relief and spark to a film that has too few great moments of pathos.
One of these, however, is the transformation of a thug into the Sandman. Running from the police after a robbery, he leaps into a pit where testing is going to happen. The scientists are oblivious to human presence and thus our villain becomes disintegrated into the sand. His first reactions after this are touching.
Spider-Man's transformation into Venom and his subsequent machismo is at times frightening and at times laughable (when he struts in the street for example, or tries to be a ladies man).
Eventually he cooperates with the Green Goblin's son to bring down a greater foe.
A good movie, but not a GREAT movie as Spider-Man 2 was.