Review of Spider-Man 3 (2007) by Rubinowabrukiew — 20 Aug 2019

I have to be honest with you, I really liked this movie when I was a kid. I still can't say with my hand on my heart that I hate it. Perhaps sentiment puts this production above Webb's two mistakes. My biggest problem with this picture is emo Peter Parker. Instead of showing the temptation to have more power when wearing a symbiote costume, the creators decided to demote Peter to the role of an unbalanced teenager who stompes his leg every now and then to be noticed. Due to the construction of this film, which does not differ much from the two previous movies, I will take a closer look at the treatment of antagonists. I will begin with a character who is well known to the audience from the earlier movements. Harry Osborn's motif in the finale of the trilogy has been ruined. In 'first one' we met him as Parker's best friend and an underestimated son of an eccentric businessman. In the sequel, he sought revenge on Spider-Man for allegedly murdering his father, and finally got to know the identity of the New York City hero. Here he follows a simple "Spider-Man killed my daddy, so I have to kill him", and then he finds out that he was wrong and wants to help him fight Sandman and Venom. That's right, Venom... The producer of the show, Avi Arad, convinced the director to include Venom in the film because he is a popular character, which will attract more fans to the cinemas. He was right, because the Sony and Disney account was credited with almost 900 million dollars. However, I have a lot of objections to this interpretation of the villain. Topher Grace, who plays it, is not at least a bit like Eddie Brok from the comic book. And although I liked the effect of tangled black nets, the opponent for the spider doesn't necessarily. Apparently 2007 was not a date to animate such a demanding CGI enemies for superheroes. For dessert I left myself the discussion of Sandman, whom Sam Raimi had wanted in the film for a long time, to show the way of our protagonist, rushing not in the direction of revenge but forgiveness. Flint Marco was supposed to be the true killer of Uncle Ben in this story. This is the best written motif, the most attention was paid to it, and the studio presented a high level of realization during the sensational action scenes.

To sum up, the 'third' Spider-Man, despite being the black sheep of the trilogy, is a culmination worth seeing mainly due to the fact that the plot of the 5-year story was completed.