Directed by Sam Rami and written by himself and his brother Ivan Rami, Spider-Man 3 apperantly cost about half a billion dollars counting production and marketing costs. Exact figures were not released, the director only mentioned he was never going to release this information but only said that this was the most expensive movie he has ever done.

The main characters are still the same ones, Tobey Maguire (Spider-Man), Kirsten Dunst (Mary Jane Watson), and James Franco one of the vilons (Harry Osborn). But to fill 140 minutes (thats right, almost two hours and a half) there was a need for more characters. So we had an extra-terrestrial glob and Thomas Haden Church playing the part of the real killer of Peter Parker's grandfather, the jailled convict called Flint Marko.

This movie focuses too much on the life of Peter Parker, if there weren't moments of fighting and action I would say it was almost a chick flick. There was too much emphasis on the life of Peter Parker and Spider-Man was left a little to the side. Peter Parker now apperantly has a complete and happy life, loving and being loved by his girlfriend (almost fiancee) Mary Jane, being well established in his job and with his very famous popularity as Spider-Man that everyone loves. But all of this will be put to the test in this movie. The main character will go through moments of confusion, loss, anger,  euphoria, sadness,... It is a roller coaster of emotions and I think that all of this didn't fit well in this movie, it was all too confusing, vague and too fast (although there were 140 minutes of movie).

The vast majority of these psychic turmoils were caused by the ET glob that binded to Spider-Man's clothes and taking over Peter Parker's emotions. Besides this, the freelancer photographer still has new competition at work, Topher Grace playing the part of Eddie Brock. Topher is a young adult with lots of professional ambition and determinate to occupy Peter's position in the newspaper. Until... jealousy or lust took over Eddie Brock and facilitaded his transformance into Venom, the  newest and powerful vilon of the movie.

At the same time we have Flint Marko, a very dangerous criminal that has just broken out from prison. While running during his get away he stumbles upon a machine that alters one's particles to transform him into the Sandman. This is also when Peter Parker found out that Flint Marko was the one who really killed his grandfather. Furious he goes seeking the killer who by now already has his own super-powers.

In the middle of all of this, the extra-terrestrial glob chooses to have Spider-Man's clothes as its new house and binds itself fast with this clothes. Peter now starts to go through psychic changes, more confused, agressive and also extraverted, quite the opposite of the Peter Parker we know. Even Mary Jane gets scared and goes away from Peter finding his new actions very different.

Everything started so beautifully and it all started to change for the worse. But always the mains focus stayed on the internal confusions of Peter Parker, his personalities' conflict, fame and power.

Obviously that there is a happy ending. I mean, almost happy; the rest I will tell you nothing. Speaking about the end of the movie: the fighting scene at the end was very good with lots of action, several complex special effects worth of a Marvel classic. Too bad it was relatively short.

Overall I went to the movie teather expecting a lot and I left a bit disappointed... I even went to see it again to try to find something that I might have missed and to try to like the movie a bit more but my opinion didn't change. I think many people did the same thing and this was the reason why this movie broke the record receiving US$114.8 million on the first three days of release on 3,615 theaters throughout the world.

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