Spider-Man 3 (2007) - Монгол Хэлээр

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"Look, I want to kill the spider, you want to kill the spider. Together, he doesn't stand a chance" - Venom

You can't fault Spider-Man 3's intentions. It was supposed to knock Peter Parker off his perch; making him more fallible and showing us the consequences of his actions. However, this plan had two problems. First, the opening half of Spider-Man 2 already covered this subject so masterfully that repeating it automatically felt redundant. Second, this is Spider-Man. It's easy to make a darker version of Batman – because he dresses in black and lives in a cave and is haunted by grief and has a voice like Phyllis from Coronation Street – but Spider-Man is a primary-coloured teenager who wears a stag night bodysuit, has magical powers and happily describes himself as "friendly". He doesn't suit moody introspection at all.

This might explain the introduction of Venom in this film; after all, if someone as naturally sunny as Peter Parker is going to become convincingly malevolent, it's probably going to take some sort of mind-altering alien symbiote. But even then, the effects of this malevolence don't really stretch to much. At his most nefarious, Parker basically just grows a My Chemical Romance fringe and walks down the street winking at girls. Not even Evil Superman from Superman III was that lame. At least he straightened the Leaning Tower of Pisa.

"I've seen things in this house I've never spoken of…" - Bernard

By the end of the film, things have fallen apart completely. There are so many villains that none can develop properly. Mary Jane's role has been concentrated into a single needy, shrewish shriek. Characters can only move forward emotionally if they dance somehow. And then, just when you think things couldn't get any more hopeless, Spider-Man 3 introduces the single worst character in all of cinema history: Bernard the butler.

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Throughout the Spider-Man trilogy, the story is told of Harry Osborn's determination to kill Spider-Man. Wrongly assuming that Spider-Man killed his father – and eventually leaning Spider-Man's true identity – Harry vows to get revenge. The cost is huge. By the end of this film, Harry's vengeance has all but destroyed a city. It's cost him his friends, his fortune, his reputation. His face has been mutilated. He's alienated everything he's ever loved. Death, surely, awaits him.