While most of the Denizens were focused on the Milblog Conference this weekend gollum was drug by The Wife to see SPM3. The best way I can talk about it without being a spoiler is to say that it felt rushed and attempted to be very ambitious with the amount of story it tried to tell.
The Wife and I being casual comic book people we were able to fill in many of the gaps, but people less familiar with the material might be a little bewildered since it is shot at you at 100mph. Maybe not since much of it isn’t dwelt on at length, even though it’s a 2hr+ movie. Which is sad since the back story of Venom, Sandman, and Green Goblin 2 are intensely rich and well developed in the Marvel universe. They could’ve picked just one villain and done the entire movie about Spiderman and that villain.
It’s entertaining. The message is the same as in both SPM1 and SPM2: you always have a choice whether to be an agent for good or not. It is 2 hours and some change long, so if you’ve got Child Labor Units be prepared to have to take them to the bathroom a couple of times.
It was ambitious, and it fails to live up to that ambition. The multiple storylines get little development and can leave you with a 'huh?' moment if you actually wonder about the why. There are great special effects scenes (too many as they interfered with the story telling) and a few not so good ones. It tries to weave at least 4 story lines together at one time. While that keeps you interested it kinda cheats you when you get such truncated ending of each story line.
It is still a pretty film; it’s still a fun popcorn flick with a minor moral message, but not as good as the first two. Well worth matinee ticket prices, but you need to be epic to be worth normal prices in my book. It’s good, but not epic. The first came closer to epic without attaining it so it’s only a little let off, but still worth matinee if you are looking to be entertained. Three and a half out of five I’d say. Not a must see, but worth seeing.
--ry
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