Venom, Sony’s non-Spider-man Spider-man film, is a total mess that, while entertaining, doesn’t really work. When disgraced investigative reporter Eddie Brock sneaks into the labs of Carlton Drake he ends up getting attacked by, and bonding with, an alien symbiote, and is soon mercilessly pursued by Drake’s security forces who are intend on recovering the alien. Tom Hardy gives a fairly good performance as Brock, but he’s kind of a hard character to get a handle on. And the story is rather convoluted and stupid; pushing a lot of environmentalist and anti-capitalist propaganda. The action sequences add some energy to the film and are pretty exciting, yet there really aren’t any stakes as the aliens are pretty much invincible. Darker than the typical Marvel movie, Venom has a lot of problems and not much going for it.
Shout by Dann MichalskiBlockedParent2021-09-05T14:00:10Z
Venom, Sony’s non-Spider-man Spider-man film, is a total mess that, while entertaining, doesn’t really work. When disgraced investigative reporter Eddie Brock sneaks into the labs of Carlton Drake he ends up getting attacked by, and bonding with, an alien symbiote, and is soon mercilessly pursued by Drake’s security forces who are intend on recovering the alien. Tom Hardy gives a fairly good performance as Brock, but he’s kind of a hard character to get a handle on. And the story is rather convoluted and stupid; pushing a lot of environmentalist and anti-capitalist propaganda. The action sequences add some energy to the film and are pretty exciting, yet there really aren’t any stakes as the aliens are pretty much invincible. Darker than the typical Marvel movie, Venom has a lot of problems and not much going for it.