Spider-Man 3 is the third installment in the Spider-Man series, and concerns Peter Parker (Tobey Maguire) finally finding a balance between his life as Spider-Man and his normal life with Mary Jane Watson (Kirsten Dunst) but life in the big apple for the two is about to get a lot more complicated.
Spider-Man 3 is also director Sam Raimi’s third shot at bat, having done the previous two films, and the expectations were very high, Spider-Man 2’s huge reception 3 years before had many fans very satisfied but could they pull off another hit or succumb to the high expectations set by the previous film?
Well, in my opinion, I felt that this film failed to do both as well as in my eyes, deliver a proper Spider-Man film, the first film sort of promised it before completely falling apart in the second half and the previous film became too schmaltzy, with the announcement of the Venom storyline, It looked to me that this would finally happen but sadly didn’t, which was IMO disappointing.
The film also suffers from two other major problems, with a 140 minute running time, the film has at least 10 main characters to contend with and sadly, rarely does anything with most of them, they’re there for a few scenes as a centre point but after that, they’re mainly background fodder or used as plot points, an example of this is Kirsten Dunst and James Franco, who were front and centre in the previous two but shoved to the sidelines in this one.
The third main problem is the use of three villains instead of one, the villains are Sandman (Thomas Haden Church), the New Goblin (Franco) and Venom (Topher Grace), compared to just the Green Goblin in the first film and Doc Ock in the last film, this is a big problem, especially Venom, who is used very little considering his status in the comics, this problem also appeared in the Batman series and was one that I was happy to do without.
On a more positive note, Spider-Man in the dark suit was very good, exacting his revenge on the Sandman for his uncle’s murder was for me, the highlight of the film, sadly though, the film fails to deliver more scenes like it, as the film opts for Emo humour instead which is nothing more than groan inducing rather than funny.
On the whole, the film was OK but follows the path Return of the Jedi did, with the main lead given the meaty storyline and the side players shoved to the background, but whereas that film delivered an excellent finale, this just delivered a huge failure with little redeeming value.
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