This is so bad i just had to rant about it...

Rating: 2/10 (23 May 2007)

Now I don't expect anything amazing from the tie-up-loose-ends film in a Comic book trilogy but Spiderman 3 was just excessively bad When ya go see a superhero film you expect some ass kicking and some pretty nifty special effects with a high adrenaline boost to keep you rooting for the superhero But in this film there was quite the opposite most of the film was showing Peter Parker being a bit of a crap boyfriend and having troubles with his relationship with Mary Jane, which made some audience members around me call him nasty names (not bad to say he's the good guy). As for the special effects yeah Sandman is pretty nifty I'll admit that, apart from the scene where he first realises his power that scene looks like some advert for a computing system not a million dollar budgeted film There's also many bits in the film where you can tell that it was done via the actor doing something and a green screen behind them it looks cheap and really tacky To say it's an action film it confuses me as I seem to remember there was an "i love you" dance in a jazz bar in which the lowly male dances to impress the girl of his dreams since she's fallen out with him because he cheated that kinda thing has been seen in romantic comedies throughout the history of film... it was all about Peter Parker's relationship Not the web-slinging hero of New York Spiderman only had four fights Peter Parker had one bless 'im... not exactly an action packed superhero film if ya ask me and even the BIG CLIMATIC brawl between the goody and the baddies was a bit poor lacking in suspense and superhero violence and you could guess what was going to happen next, and then the use of comic relief was brought in with really bad timing.
The whole point of the film was to get the audience to see Venom appear as he is quite a cult favourite... He wasn't referred to as Venom throughout the whole film and he was on screen for the last 20 minutes n that's your lot and (possible spoiler here) he wants to kill Spiderman because of wait for it Spiderman made him lose his girlfriend!!! RELATIONSHIPS AGAIN The only thing I thought was good in this film was the fact that Danny Elfman wrote the original score so it's good to see he's created an impact on films before Tim Burton's Batman scores for superhero films were some cheesy pop-rock song from the 70's (watch Power Rangers: The Movie and the original TMNT films to see what I'm on about) then along came Elfman and now all superhero films have the string quartet with some good music drifting along the background... Oh and Wolfmother do a song for the soundtrack.. that's also excellent..
So if you're after a super-hero comic book film that actually keeps the feel of the comic book and excite you and keep you hooked stay with the first two Spiderman films if you want a 140-minute soap with a few punch-ups then this is the film for you One of the worst mainstream films I've seen in a long time