Spiderman 3 Review
The Spiderman 3 film is like going to Asia with limited time and trying to see five countries when you should have just settled on two and relaxed and really explored them.
Yes, it's overambitious, poorly told and handled - even by cliched big superhero film standards - and at times just plain wierd.
Firstly, forget about Sandman. Who cares? Boring! This film should had made a careful and crafted examination of Spiderman's involvement with the alien symbiote. It's a fascinating episode in the comics and deserved much, much more of an exploration on screen. Where is it from? What does it really do? How does it really affect him? - beyond turning him into some freak mix between a total soppy dork with delusions of cool and a screwed up emo type of idiot well past his bedtime. As I said, at times the film was just plain wierd. That dancing scene in the bar? What the fuck?
Anyway, so the film needed just to set better limitations and just choose to tell the story of the alien symbiote and really explore the effects of it on Peter. And I think it would have been cool to see him really lose it more. That is, of course if Toby McGuire could play anything else other than a happy chappy dipstick or a psycho emo. Which I doubt. Now that was a piece of film history miscasting.
Second. Venom is an awesome character - I am bias and freely admit it. But I am thinking from cinematic perspective when I say this...Venom needed more time and development. In every way. It needed more, from beyond the lame Eddie Brock backstory crap, to showing Venom himself and his powers and abilities.
This in my opinion is the real tragedy of the film. What a film it could have been if it had focused on showcasing the powers and abilities and characteristics of the alien suit and then Venom, through fight scenes and action between Spiderman and Venom. Venom was introduced way too late and then promptly dispatched. Oh, there he goes!
NO. This film needed to START with the alien symbiote suit and then properly explore that and its effects on Peter, and then bring in all the MJ shit and Peter's life story and blah blah, then immediately bring in Venom, develop and showcase him - ie. give him some decent screentime - and then have the end of act two through act three concerned with Spidey vs Venom and put the focus on their battles and abilities. Such a missed opportunity here. And another thing, what the fuck is that with Harry the Goblin junior. That was so Spiderman 2. It should have been dispatched early on and rid of! This crap with Goblin Jnr coming to save Spiderman...I didn't pay to see that!
Unfortunately, a mess. 4 webs out of 10.
Better luck next time. And at least they could get the action scenes right in future.!!
