Spider-Man: Every Movie Villain Ranked Worst To Best

There are a lot of things wrong with Spider-Man 3, the final and most inescapably disappointing instalment to Sam Raimi's 2000s Spidey trilogy, and one of its biggest failings comes from the way it set-ups its villains (much like The Amazing Spider-Man 2 would do again a few years down the line).

No antagonist suffers more from the film's overstuffed script than Eddie Brock, an arrogant photographer who's meant to mirror Peter Parker's moral persona and highlight the damage the Venom symbiote can cause in the wrong hands.

Thanks to the woefully misguided casting of Topher Grace and the heavy-handed drama of the film, though, little of Venom's potential is realised. Brock's development is rushed and whittled down to predictable clichés, and Grace's performance does little to sell his growing menace. On the plus side, he at least looks pretty cool.