The final installment in Sam Raimi's spider-man trilogy, with Toby Maquire as Peter Parker/Spider-man battling three villains as well as his own personal demons.

Rating: 6/10 (2 May 2014)

This is not a completely bad movie but it's little disappointing, especially how great the original was and how fantastic the 2nd one was and this one is just OK at most. Sam Raimi is a fantastic director and you can see his talent at work here but his mistake here is trying to do too much in one movie. I feel like the three villains could of worked but it wasn't done in the right way. First let me say the special effects were great and all the actors did a great job. But I think the three villains could of been handled differently. First, the new Green Goblin, he was giving a great set up in the previous film and the opening fight between Harry/Goblin and Peter Parker in his street clothes was excellent! But I'm not so sure of the whole Harry getting amnesia story line, Franco was great in his part though. The rivalry/friendship between Peter and Harry is always good. Thomas Haden Church was perfectly cast as Flint Marko/Sandman and the special effects for sandman was great! Especially when he was flying through the sky like a sand cloud, that actually looked kind of creepy. Then there's my favorite spider-man villain Venom. There's a lot of good and bad with Venom. Supposlly Sam Raimi didn't like Venom and was pressured to include him. The good is that alien symbiont that is venom looks awesome! Great special effects on the symbiont or "black ooze" and Sam Raimi shows his horror movie roots with the creepy persona he gives to the black ooze. Raimi does a good job at making the symbiont/ooze feel alive and slowly shows it's true face. When the ooze gets on Eddie Brock it becomes Venom and he looks great, with his demonic looking fangs for teeth and it's banshee like screech he really looks like a demon and speaking as a big fan of the character this is the way he's suppose to be. Now the bad is that Eddie Brock wasn't giving much character development before becoming Venom. I thought Topher Grace was really good as Eddie but he wasn't given enough development. Topher was great at being sleazy, cocky and funny. I didn't mind if he was skinner then the much more muscular Brock from the comics. I thought Topher was well cast in the role. My favorite line is when Topher says as venom, mockingly "Oh, my spider sense is tingling". It's understandable that a lot of people felt like venom belonged in another movie and bringing him in here over stuffed the movie. However I feel Venom could'eve worked in this movie but I think the biggest mistake was making Venom and sandman team up at the end to attack spider-man. It should of been Venom by himself, there was no need to bring back sandman and having sandman there overshadows the awesomeness of Venom. People who are not familiar with Venom from the comics won't get a sense of why he's one of the most fearsome foes spider-man ever faced. The villains could've worked for each act: Goblin/Harry in act 1, Sandman in act 2, and venom vs spider- man showdown in act 3. If you really want to see the best take on Venom watch Spider-man the animated series of the 1990's, that's how it's suppose to be done! Also Toby/Peter going to the dark side thanks to the symbiont had some great moments but arguably could've been more darker and dangerous. I enjoyed the supporting cast especially J.K. Simmons who is absolutely perfect as the obnoxious J.Johna Jameson. The movie has a lot of good stuff about it but ultimately 3 villains just didn't work. Having it been just Peter/spider-man vs Harry/Goblin and Venom showing up at the end and no sandman at all probably would've been the best way to go. But I still enjoyed seeing the 'venom saga" unfold in a live action movie.