Posted by hotlantalive on April 22, 2007, 12:53 am || Total Votes: 0
Left dangling for three years, arachnophiles everywhere finally have cause to celebrate.
The biggest (with a production budget due north of $250 million) and longest (clocking in at 139 minutes) and quite possibly the capper of a trilogy featuring the current talent lineup, "Spider-Man 3" has done it again.
Certain to please the geek squad by remaining ever true to its comic book roots while retaining that satisfying emotional core that has registered with equal numbers of female fans, "Spidey 3" has all its demographic bases covered.
And while the picture as a contained whole may fall an itsy-bitsy short of the personal best set by Sam Raimi's 2004 edition, the wow factor works overtime with state-of-the-art effects sequences that are often as beautiful as they are astonishing.
The Columbia Pictures blockbuster, which received its world premiere on May 4 in Tokyo, should spin a worldwide web that should build substantially on the $1.6 billion already brought in by the first two installments.
Fittingly for a Marvel comic book character who seems to be even more tormented by issues of duality than his super-powered colleagues, "Spider-Man 3" introduces not one but two formidable foes determined to take the web-slinger down.
First there's Flint Marko (Thomas Haden Church), an escaped con who becomes better known as Sandman after his DNA bonds with sand particles when he inadvertently gets caught in the middle of a molecular fusion experiment.
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