Perfect, if you hate films, scripts and acting

Rating: 1/10 (25 April 2007)

I rather liked the first two films, and I understand that this is a big, colourful blockbuster sort of a movie, but when exactly did Sam Raimi just stop caring? A dreadful script mixed with radical changes of pace (it's an action film! No, it's a screwball comedy! Now it's a darkly psychological drama! No, now it's a song-and-dance extravaganza!), combined with Tobey Maguire, Kristen Dunst and Topher Grace all competing to out-suck one another all adds up to a film that is both poorly executed and - bizarrely, given the subject matter - deathly dull. Not even the special effects are that glittering. JK Simmons, Ted Raimi and Bruce Campbell make it almost worth watching bits of, but a better evening's entertainment could be had slamming one's genitals in a car door. The dialogue would certainly be better.