Whilst on a deep space mission a corporation led by the evil Carlton Drake (Riz Ahmed) manages to discover a comet covered in symbiotic lifeforms. Whatever rumours or stories we can all agree that for some reason the powers that be really wanted a Venom movie. There was also an idea to have a low budget adult version. There was also an idea to have Venom in 'Spider-Man: Homecoming'. There were ideas to have Venom kickstart his own franchise which would share the same universe as other Marvel characters. Initially plans seemed to revolve around having Venom get in on the action in the rebooted 'The Amazing Spider-Man' franchise, but that failed. So after the somewhat dismal iteration of Venom in 'Spider-Man 3' Sony went back to the drawing board. I can't really call it a good movie, but I'd be lying if I said I didn't enjoy it.Īnother day, another comicbook movie. There's a part of me that hates it for denying us a legit Venom movie with Spider-Man and Carnage and maybe an R-rating, but I can't deny I was pretty damn entertained through most of it. Venom is a dumb movie, but it's the right kind of dumb. Yes the final one does fall back into two CGI creations banging into each other, but his apartment takeover at the beginning is fun and the motorcycle chase with tons of practical explosions, both are creative and cool. The action scenes are pretty fun and creative too. It didn't always work, but it was consistently entertaining. He's going all out with this weirdass performance. It's not Venom at all, but it is a helluva lot of fun to watch and Hardy totally sells it. A big part of that is the weird bromance between Tom Hardy and the symbiote. However, from that perspective.yeah, the movie's actually quite a bit of fun. It's more like the superhero movies we got in the 90s, where they only had a vague connection to their source character and were never tied to any larger universe. In fact, it's kind of despicable how irresponsible it isn't a Venom movie.
Let's make one thing clear: this is not a Venom movie. I went into this movie with extremely lowered expectations, and from that perspective I actually had fun with it.