April 30, 2007

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Webbed wonder back at the box office

Third Spider-Man installment best one yet

By Oscar Bissot
Staff Writer

In short, Sam Raimi’s (Evil Dead, Spider-Man) Spider-Man 3 is, without a doubt, the best in the series so far.

It feels more like the sequel to Raimi’s film, with the plot itself coming directly from the first movie. From the first five minute to the last minutes, the action doesn’t let up and keeps it fresh.

The movie starts off between the fight that fans were hinted at during the end of the frst film.

But that fight ends quickly, and we’re eventually introduced to the new characters of the movie. Topher Grace (“That 70’s Show”) plays Eddie Brock, who plays Peter Parker’s nemesis, always trying to find a way to show up Parker.

]Along with Grace, there’s Thomas Haden Church (Tombstone) as Flint Marko, a convict who escapes from Riker’s Island, who wanders into a lab experiment, which bonds his cells into sand and becomes the Sandman.

Yes, Bruce Campbell does make a cameo like he has in the last two movies and he’s just as funny

This is definitely the darkest of the movies; most of the story revolves around Peter’s struggle with an alien symbiote, which bonds to his suit and gives him the black suit.

Peter struggles to get rid of the symbiote, and if you’re familiar with the comic book, you already know what is going to happen because it stays true to the book.

The whole movie builds up to the last 45 minutes of the movie, which delivers a remarkable climax.

However, with some scenes in the movie that are more or less forgettable, the overwhelming amount of action and the way the story plays through the end more than makes up for it.

For those worried that the third installment would be unbelievably horrible ... yeah, like X-Men 3.. fear not – Spider-Man 3 delivers on every count.

With rumors of a fourth, fifth and even a sixth movie, it’s hard to see what direction the series will go from here.

However, you can be sure that Raimi knows what he’s doing and that it will be just as great as this third film

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