Some funny parts, CG looked dated in some scenes. I saw Upgrade a month ago so this seemed like rehash. I enjoyed Upgrade more
I am so disappointed. This movie had potential but it ended up like story full of bullsh:hearts:t for younglings. Yeah it had funny moments and Venom itself was really awesome. I always liked Venom. But story was boring and pointless. There where not bloody scenes. Sad.
A mediocre (anti) superhero movie but really nothing more.
this was such a gathering of cinematic cliches, I can't even begin to describe my disappointment. the acting was really mediocre, even though the cast was promising. maybe the sequel will be good, but this was just a mishmash of attempted jokes and cgi explosions. one word: meh
I was expecting a dark atmosphere, mouth opening CGI, superb acting and an original storyline.. but unfortunately this film lacks all of these features. Another useless Marvel film.
The only good thing with this movie is one of the last Stan Lee cameo. The rest, it sucks!
surprisingly poor acting, and bland characters
Not as good as I was expecting..
I was surprised I liked it even with the cringey CGI and jokes. The main strength was the chemistry and relationship between Eddie and Venom. Tom gave again his best acting and charisma in which overall made the movie a decent introduction to Venom. I'm hoping that they will make the sequels Rated R, I think it will make the movies better and satisfying to watch.
What a wasted opportunity to do Venom some justice. Tom Hardy does an ok job portraying the hero but the rest of the cast is so bad that unremarkable would be an gross understatement (that Michelle performance especially was oh so painful and not to take credit away from the rest trashy performances), world is separated form the actual origin and spiderman universe, plot was super dull and the usual blockbuster generic 'another superhero origin movie', etc...etc...
To sum it up, the whole time I was watching, I was getting the feeling that no one, on and off camera, who took part in this movie, was even remotely connected or interested in anything that had to do with Venom. Fans will watch it anyways, but make sure to keep your expectations in check.
This was a meh but fun movie. I think the action scenes were good and Hardy's performance was the best thing of this movie. Sadly this feels a little rushed so at the end is not as good as I expected. This is a fun movie to watch on a Saturday evening but sadly is just that.
I have come to the conclusion that when villainous characters become popular so they try to make heroes out of them it is nearly always disappointing. This one teetered on ruin. 3/10
Tom Hardy, a good actor, always puts on a good show and definitely the right casting choice because It works well. I thought the movie was decent with a good plot easy to follow and some good effects with plenty of action but with a slow start and didn't expect It to be full of humour. My only downer was that It was a little rushed, also I feel It would of been so much better If It was (R) rated.
Way better than anyone is giving it credit for. This is just too fun of a movie to give a low score. It takes a few for Eddie Brock to become Venom but holy shit once he does the movie takes off and is a fun ride.
Didn't like the movie, but super excited for the sequel.
Tom Hardy was good, the writing bad, the story so generic and the CGI very poor for that kind of movie.
Make the sequel like the last scene before the credits and improve on the above and we will have a great movie.
Marvel has long stopped being a can't-do-no-wrong franchise for me. It has become pretty much a hit-or-miss relationship. And for the most part a lot of them missed lately.
Venom was the one Marvel movie in a long time I thoroughly enjoyed. Not just watched but really enjoyed. It's not perfect, it has flaws. Like a weak villain and, besides Tom Hardy, who is simply amazing, a pretty much forgettable assortment of cast/characters. But Venom itself is a refreshing character with potential. And I don't care about references to comics because, quite simply, I do not read them. Not anymore, I did about 35-40 years ago. I watch the movies and take them stand alone. I really hope they don't f*** Venom up like they did Spiderman and Thor.
Was heartbraking to see Stan at the end. RIP and thanks for all the great characters you brought us.
I'm under the impression that they don't even try anymore. Pick-up a lame story, sprinkle some CGI (bad or not), if you are there maybe top it up with a popular actor also and BOOM you have a new super-hero movie with nothing special to it.
Saw the movie today and truly loved it. After hearing about the poor critic reviews I was worried because I was so looking forward to seeing Tom Hardy in this role. Silly me, I forgot, all critic reviews these days (or maybe they always were) are just so out of touch with reality. Starting to believe the conspiracy theories that they are all fake or paid for. The movie had a great plot, I'm fairly sure there was a Terminator 2 reference. It wasn't too long. I wanted it to keep going. The relationship with Eddie and Venom was fun. I can't wait for the next one. I recommend you see it.
Initial Reaction
The Good
• It is fun for the most part, giving you that rebellious feeling for the anti-hero.
• The design of Venom was pretty appealing to watch in action.
• When Venom and Eddie were fighting over the control and motives to their actions, it was very well done most of the time.
The Bad
• Starting off as a fun action flick, it quickly turned into the cash grab we all thought Sony was going to pull.
• Tom Hardy does do a good job at interacting with Venom, but everything else is a mess for him.
• The main villain in this movie is plain awful, so cliche and lacking proper motive. Not to mention the casting choice was so bad.
• I'm going to try not to say much, but the motive for Venom himself is the worst part of the movie. It suffers from the infamous show not tell rule, especially with this aspect.
• While the blacks, dark greys and blues are a nice colour pallet for the movie. Having Venom be primarily in the dark is not a good viewing experience or a good visual image.
• The lack of gore is extremely frustrating. The benefits of having this movie be R would have been great.
Conclusion
Venom could have been a good dark action anti-hero movie. But instead, it feels as if it is the typical Sony higher-ups demanding compromise over quality. No style to really think of, because you can't count night as one. But, I did have fun with it when the two partners were actually alone to argue and discuss. The action is okay and limits itself to not repeat or seem stale. Sadly though, it lacks in everything else. Leaving you with the feeling of a kids rollercoaster ride. A thrill to begin with, but leaves you wishing it climbed just a little higher.
[5.9/10] There is a goofy action comedy trying to sluice out of the staid, generic confines of Venom. The film gives us a standard “noble screw-up” protagonist, a typical hardly-sketched girlfriend, a tired love triangle, and a sub-Bond flick monologuing villain. It mostly feels like a 1990s blockbuster, replete with hardly there characters and a bunch of empty spectacle stretched over a bare bones story until the producers can call it a day.
And yet, for isolated stretches, there is a gonzo, loony energy to the film that is just waiting to get out. That energy, not coincidentally, tends to surface once the titular alien symbiote has come out to play. The film’s protagonist (or dual protagonists, depending on how your preference) is a metaphor for the film itself: a boring, unremarkable vessel for something weird and unique and crazy that gets to take over from time to time.
Venom introduces us to Eddie Brock, an investigative reporter who fights for the truth and lives a charmed life in San Francisco with his lawyer fiancée, Annie. Annie represents the Life Foundation, a FAANG company-esque Silicon Valley juggernaut run by young billionaire Carlton Drake. When Eddie is charged with doing a puff piece on Drake, he not only ticks him off by asking hard-hitting questions about his company’s predictably evil practices, but her violates Annie’s trust by logging onto her computer and snooping on confidential documents from the company to do it.
His stunt gets him fired, dumped, and six months later he’s become, as the movie so ham-fistedly reminds us, a “loser,” who looks like crap and can’t make the rent. All of this happens in 15-20 minutes, with these characters and their circumstances only established in clunky exposition. The effect is that it’s hard to care when Eddie loses everything. He not only deserves it (for violating his fiancée’s trust, at least), but comes off like a replacement-level dudebro with a generic backstory and nothing to distinguish him. His fall is too swift, his personality too much off the assembly line, to make any of it worth investing in.
But after a while -- too long really -- Eddie gets a tip from a whistleblower about unethical experiments being performed on the homeless and encounters the titular symbiote. The ensuing adventures utterly fail as drama. The bad guys go after him. Drake ends up with a symbiote of his own named Riot. And the two square off in a fight over whether more of these black goo aliens will be heading to Earth to take over. It’s a bog standard “save the world” plot that sees sympathetic good guy team up with his unlikely allies to fight the megalomaniacal bad guy.
But they soar as a sort of bizarre, slapstick comedy. The booming, guttural voice of Venom barking commands within his host a sort of malevolent Jiminy Cricket is outlandish enough to be as silly as it's meant to be unnerving. Bits like a half-possessed Eddie settling into a lobster tank to bite the heads off its occupants, or awkwardly apologizing to his attackers as the symbiote knocks them silly, or trading the symbiote in a makeout session with his ex have a go-for-broke energy lacking in the rest of the movie. It’s in these moments that Venom seems to acknowledge, lean into, and revel in how bonkers its premise is, before settling back into standard superhero tedium.
It’s also the part of the film where Tom Hardy shines. For much of its runtime, Hardy does fine if uninspired work as the dogged reporter, the doleful ex-boyfriend, and the Hollywood studio version of a blue collar everyman. But when he’s freaking out over his body’s new occupant, or having what seem like schizophrenic conversations with it, or just generally scrambling in his flop sweat-laden disorientation, he steps it up a notch. At times, it feels like Hardy’s the only one who realizes what kind of movie this is, playing it as unhinged comedy rather than studio-bound hackwork, which livens the proceedings.
The special effects, while a mixed mag, are also one of the film’s few saving graces. There’s a fair amount of convincing and compelling body horror in this one. Those afflicted with symbiotes move in disturbing ways that generate the film’s only legitimate scares. At the same time, the film does well to show the gloopy tendrils of the symbiotes extruding from their hosts and hanging onto ledges, fixing broken bones, and giving them a leg up in fistfights and car chases.
At the same time, when the symbiotes completely take over, they look utterly ridiculous, even with the benefit of a mostly dark-shot film. The designers can’t get the balance of ambulatory cartoon and a gritty realism right in the look of the alien brutes, to where they just look like blobs with jack-o-lantern faces smashing into on another. The CGI does impress in a final sequence that shows Eddie and Drake emerging intermittently as combatants amid the sluice and bubbling of their big gooey hosts, but those hoping to be wowed by Venom’s first appearance in live action in more than a decade will go home disappointed.
So will viewers of almost any stripe, unfortunately. Venom isn’t boring. It has some decent setups and payoffs. Its story, while unavailing, is at least focused. And it makes a half-hearted attempt to imbue its villain with some vague “Silicon Valley rising on the backs of the poor” commentary. It is, if you will, the “good kind of bad” for much of its runtime, being colorful enough around the edges to hold your attention between sarcastic remarks.
But it’s still bad. Given the film’s box office take, a sequel is all but inevitable. The best we can hope for is that the same studio that somehow brought us the transcendently weird, delightful, and heartfelt Into the Spider-Verse just a few months later, can harness the off-kilter comic energy straining to squeeze out of the pores of Venom and put it front and center in the sequel. A lighter, less paint-by-numbers film, that could channel that out there humor and dark-tinged slapstick, without the de jure love triangle and fill-in-the-blanks characters and plot, would be worth going back to the lab for.
Just what I was expecting - a fun movie with some good laughs, kind of dark, kind of quirky. Not forgettable or (too) cringe-worthy. Looking forward to hopefully seeing more! Also make sure to stay for the during credits scene AND after credits scene. Longest credits ever, but it was worth it imho.
The problem this movie has long before you ever walk into the theater, is that there's so much riding on it. Sony is essentially trying to create their own MCU and everyone knows it, so everyone expects MCU quality and it just wasn't there. It's not a bad movie per se, it just doesn't live up to the hype. I didn't find the love interest believable because there just wasn't much chemistry. And Venom himself is turned into a hero of sorts, a kind of antihero, so it's not quite the venom you're used to. The fight scenes were pretty cool at the beginning, but the last fight scene was so disappointing. With the CGI you almost couldn't even see what was happening because it all happened too fast. Overall, it's okay and you'll enjoy it if you don't go into it expecting too much.
After reading some of the reviews on here, as well as those in the mainstream press, I was ready to fire venom at this movie. Thankfully. I am allowed to tame my tongue, as I really enjoyed the film. It wasn't perfect - it was a bit rushed after the midway point - but for the most part, I had a good time. Hardy nailed the character, and those in support were also good value. And if you weren't psyched to see Spiderman: Into the Spiderverse before seeing this film, you will be after the end-credits sequence.
I don't really understand these comments about the film being meh, as I liked it, but probably not as much compared to other Marvel movies.
Did not expect it to contain humour at all, so that's a nice plus.
The start does take off quite slowly and the ending was too fast in my opinion. It could have continued for a lot more time than it did which is a shame.
Looking forward to the next one.
Venom, PG-13? WTF, Sony?!
Apart from that, it's genuinely better than what people are making it out to be. But what do I know? I'm just a long-time ignorant Venom fanboy.
Anyway, in short: lame and very unconvincing villain, meh story, great special effects on Venom (the final fight between him and Riot is full of eye candy, particularly at the times when they're "fusing" with one another), and Venom's interaction with Eddie Brock is pretty fun to watch and worth the movie alone.
When i read its first reviews, i was sad because most of them didn't like the movie! so, I watched it very late, and SURPRISE Iliked it very much; fast movie except first 20 mintues, good acting from Tom Hardy, strong actions, lots of humour.. etc.
so, don't follow up reveiws all the time and judge by yourself.
I wasn't expecting much here but was pleasantly surprised. I really loved this - Hardy does a great job playing Brock as he starts falling apart at the seams, contending with Venom in his head.
Sony have taken the Venom character into a more sci-fi setting and less superhero comic book and, with the wealth of the character, this really works. They could do worse than focus on a load of movies spinning off of Venom and forgetting the other spidey villains that don't stand alone in the same way.
The post credits scene teaser for what, I assume, is planned as Venom 2 is sooooo great.
Tom Hardy is the right choice for Venom, they took the story for once in the right way in development. How he becomes Venom and how the Symbiote becomes Venom. So much comedy is thrown into the mix in the right way - We Are Losers Just Like You. It was a slow start but picks up, the humor just fit the character perfectly.
If you haven't seen it, watch it, its a hell of a movie and you can tell there has to be more because you want him to develop more, and there is so much material work with for Venom in the Marvel Universe. Can Venom team up with Spider Man in a movie, there is a possibility but they really have to nail down Spiderman right to get the characters on the same page and timeline.
So,in general, it's a very good movie. Funny and smart. the only thing I hated most was
seeing Michelle Williams so old with that stupid wig.
"Eyes, lungs, pancreas. So many snacks, so little time."
Tom Hardy makes this movie more entertaining then it has any right to be. Venom is like a early comic-book movie. It has the typical final fight, it has comedy, it has action that is hard to follow and a quick origin.
My biggest complains are that it is not Rated-R and that Michelle Williams is severely underused. But on the flipside I rather enjoyed the "buddy-cop" relationship between Venom and Eddie. Tom Hardy really plays that part well. But hey after seeing Eddie Brock in the extra scene of No Way Home, I'm wondering which Peter he will face. I think Andrew would be the most logical one. Because we would've seen Topher Grace if it was Tobey's Venom.
Anyway Venom is what is it and I enjoyed it. Have lowered by expectations for the sequel because that one also has been Rated PG-13 but I bet it will be a film I will enjoy!
The SSU - thankfully renamed from SPUMC - begins!
I enjoyed 'Venom', in short. Tom Hardy is one of my favourite actors and I thoroughly enjoyed his showing here as the titular character. The bonkers nature of the story, if not perfect at all, is very entertaining to watch unfold. I also found the pacing and special effects to be more than solid. Looking forward to checking out the sequel.
A corporate-backed space flight crashes somewhere in Malaysia, spilling its priceless cargo: four canisters of stringy, thinking, creeping extraterrestrial slime. One such goopy critter manages to escape, inhabiting a series of human carriers like a serial carjacker, while the others are whisked back to company HQ for various pokes and prods in the lab. There, a forsaken ex-journalist with a grudge against the CEO (who is eeevil, for the record) makes off with one of the remaining creatures and everything quickly descends into metro mayhem and superpowered action.
The nuts and bolts of how Venom's symbiosis functions are interesting, and the running conversation inside his cranium is campy yet entertaining (think Willem Dafoe's competing personalities in 2002's Spider-Man), but the human characters are generic, the plot is full of gaps and the narrative is terribly predictable. We also don't get a lot of good reasons to cheer for the star, beyond the visceral thrills of watching him crush cars, eat heads and say precisely what's on his mind. He's a victim of his own bad decision-making, both as the human Eddie Brock (simultaneously killed his career and his love life in one selfish act) and his eight-foot, alien-skinned alter-ego (prone to violence, wrests control from several unwilling host bodies). They're better together, occasionally pushing each other to grow and learn, but that feels more like a throwaway scrap than a theme and the climactic struggle falls short of achieving redemption.
Tom Hardy turns in another satisfying performance as the twin leads, completely transforming his voice to inhabit the role of a bloodthirsty foreign consciousness, and the effects work is appropriately exciting. In all his glory, though, Venom looks rather bland without a big, white spider icon on his chest; his design is basically all head now. This isn't boring, it's just incredibly dumb.
Screw it!!!!!!!!! I love this film with a passion and do not listen to the critics because they have a habit of being harsher on Marvel properties outside of the MCU.
Venom was such incredible fun and it almost felt like a throwback to the early 2000s superhero films as this was such incredible fun and I love the fact that it is not as serious as the other superhero films out at the moment, I'd say the reason for this is Ruben Fleischer who is a directing genius when it comes to blending action, comedy and fun :)
Tom Hardy (Eddie Brock / Venom) is perfect in this film and I loved his relationship between himself and Venom, really can't wait for him to come back in Venom 2. Also, I want to say that Riz Ahmed (Carlton Drake) is really great as the villain because at first you want to like him but by the end, you will hate his guts.
Honestly, please watch this and get ready for a great ride. The only reason I didn't rate it higher is that some of the VFX was a bit meh and there was some silly parts, but seriously if you are a fan of the early 2000s superhero flicks like Blade and Spider-Man then I promise you will love this.
"I am Venom. And you are mine."
This is not a superhero movie or a anti-hero film. This is a love story.
It's funny how Tom Hardy has more chemistry with himself than he dose with Michelle Williams.
'Venom' is an absolutely mess of a movie, but there's never a dull moment. The acting from everyone is really bad and the action scenes are poorly filmed. Still, it's fascinating to see a movie that's so all over the place with talented people involved. Hardy climbing into a fish tank is a remarkable sight.
We are Venom? More like we want money.
Life hurts. It just does.
I mean Tom Hardy...enough said.
Enough action with little sense.
Let’s start with some positives shall we? This movie feauters one of the best action sequences of the year so far (nothing compared to anything in Mission: Impossible - Fallout but still impressive) where Eddie Brock (Hardy) escapes his persucers on a moterbike aided by the abliities of Venom. After a pretty slow bulid up this scene really beagn to peak my intrest and get me ingaged in the film, despite obvious cuts around the more violent moments this was a real highlight.
It’s a shame that the rest of the film cannont live up to this however, the paper thin plot moves at a snail’s pace, any attempt at horror is lost in the edit and the massive CGI mess of a finale is extermly difficult to follow and extemly dull to watch.
Riz Ahmed is terribly miss cast as a suposedly threatening villain and Michelle Williams plays the same shell of a character that she has been stuck playing for years. this cast desevers so much better than this and so does the character.
I really don’t have to much else to add about this film, it’s just pretty boring. Honestly just watch Spider-Man 3 again!
Once you gotten over the initial disappointment of what this could've and should've been, it's really not all bad. It's a pretty fun popcorn movie. The conversations Hardy has with himself are hilarious. There's lots of fun juvenile humor, some cool action pieces and it moves along quickly. It's a junky film, but it's fun junk.
Seul Tom Hardy est présent, Michelle Williams joue trop mal un rôle absent.
This was a truckload of fun. I understand the "This is a 90s throwback" comments now but at the same time i still feel it's better than that comparison with the same humour. It isn't going to be claiming for best ___ any time soon but i also look forward to watching it again.
One negative: Woody Harrelson's hair.
My Symbiote..My Symbiote..Wherever I go, heeeee goes...My Symbiote, My Symbiote.. I'll teach him everything that I knooooowwww...My Symbiote and me like to climb up a tree, My Symbiote and me, We're the beeeeest friends that could beeeeee..My Symbiote..My Symbiote....My Symbiote aaaaad Meeeeeee!!!!
I don't get why people hate this movie I loved it
I really liked the movie, it is just a shame they toned it down to be PG13.
I don't understand the bad ratings of Venom. This wasn't one of those movies where half an hour feels like a whole movie itself. I enjoyed every minute of it. I guess the beginning was a tiny bit slow and the ending felt a bit too fast.
Especially the interactions between Eddie and Venom were really fun to watch also because Tom Hardy's performance was outstanding.
I definitely recommend watching it if you like movies with a solid plot and some nice comedy and action!
Tom Hardy, all by himself, almost makes this a good movie.
And, it's hilarious at times (which I believe was intentional, I think this movie is self-aware), way funnier than say Ant-Man and the Wasp.
There was just something about the banter between Eddie and Venom that worked extremely well.
But: the script is awful, the dialogue sucks, the production values are terrible, and anyone that isn't Tom Hardy comes from a much blander film.
So I cannot really recommend it, even though I kinda want to.
This is the lamest comic book movie in a while. The first act is terrible but once the symbiote finally get to Eddie Brock it picks up. The best part by far is Tom Hardy talking to himself. Everyone else is just bland. The effects are fine but the final fight is just a total CGI fest and kinda dull. This isn't worth paying for but it's worth watching to see Tom Hardy act crazy.
Edit: I did like it a little bit more on rewatch just because Tom Hardy is going all out.
Besides the action and the visuals there isn't that much to see here. The characters besides Tom Hardy feel bland and don't really add something to the movie. I have no idea if there should be a romance between Anne and Eddie, but atleast it wasn't in this movie. Female Venom was fun to see though.
The movie has some nice visuals, some good action scenes and some comic moments, but overal it felt like a bland movie which I will forget really soon.
The supporting cast is horrible. Annie, Dan, Schrift, their Elon Musk... All either poorly written or poorly acted. Annie couldn't have been much more wooden and unconnected to everything around her. Over all, fair, for a Marvel film.
Even Tom Hardy can't save this.
Hardy's acting and Venom's facial expressions are the only note wordy thing in this movie. The rest is just atrocious.
I enjoyed Venom, not as much as most Marvel movies but it wasn't the worst either.. It does take a long time before the movie finally starts to get interesting.. but when Venom and Eddie finally meet it's only getting better and better. Can't wait for the next one
The action was good but I felt lost watching it felt like the story I wanted 2 see was cut off and a new chapter was created using points from the origin almost like pouring flat soda over ice not satisfying but I will take it.
I'll probably be the only person here that thinks Tom Hardy was not right for this role. I think the accent doesn't sound genuine and he doesn't really play Eddie Brock like how I envisioned him from the comics and cartoons. However, his voice-over work for Symbiote was incredibly well-done, as expected from someone as experienced and skilled as Tom.
I think bland is the perfect word to describe the plot of the entire movie, but really this is par for the course when it comes to superhero origin movies. What did astonish me, however, was how straight forward and predictable they made Michelle William's character. She did nothing for me in this movie and seemed to only serve as a motivation for the plot. On the flip side, Riz Ahmed was solid as Drake/Riot and Jenny Slate was a pleasant surprise to me as Dora. She definitely has some acting chops that are probably looked because of her excellent comedic roles.
There's a decent movie with some really incredible CGI effects here. It really brings me back to the time of superhero movies before the Marvel Universe. Recommended for entertainment value, but there is nothing truly substantial about Venom.
I did my Marvel ritual of not seeing any trailers and I found this movie really fun. It was hard to not like Venom, and Eddie had some great funny faces.. I liked Dan too. Such a decent guy. I didn't like much Anne, and her WIG made me distracted every time she was on-screen.. ugh. I liked this movie and might be interested in watching it again in the future. :)
EDIT: I just remembered something that bothered me. The fact that they treated us like a bunch of illiterate children. You don't need to spell things for us, you don't need to repeat things twice, thrice..
Pointless to have Venom without Peter Parker. Venom is surprisingly entertaining nevertheless. Due to only Tom Hardy.
Riz Ahmed Is pretty bad as the villain. He gives an overly low key and one note performance throughout. Michelle Williams is Katie Holmes Batman Begins like miscast as well.
While this might be the Venom character done right. Again, it’s just hard to utilize him without Spider-Man.
Yet Sony Picturrs has more movies like it planned. Kraven the Hunter and Black Cat, without Spider-Man.
Tom Hardy's effort to inject a little gravitas into Venom dilutes his performance and weakens the overall film. Yes, there is action and yes, there is Tom Hardy but there is nothing to distinguish Venom from any other Sony produced Marvel film and that may not be box office poison but it left me feeling numb.
Well worth watching. A lot of good action and thrills. Michelle Williams and Tom Hardy have zero chemistry. But that doesn’t matter much. Seen at the world premiere in Westwood.
Venom's an alright flim, nothing spectacular. The first half of the films pacing was a bit off really trying to setup the characters quickly but once Venom was introduced the pacing started to even off. The only characters worth mention are Eddie, Venom and the Big Bad. Tom Hardy did have a nice performance as mentally unstable Eddie Brock. Their isn't much else to speak on as the relationship between Venom and Eddie and a few good fights were all worth mentioning. Definitely not a must watch but I don't regret watching it.
So much wasted potential, especially Tom Hardy's.
This movie is a total mess
Venom is everything I expected, and everything I hoped for in the movie.
Tom hardy as a down on his luck guy, mixed with a controlling parasite/creature, felt very well acted.
The movie was full of comedy and action, with a good pacing. To me, nothing seemed super out of place, but the matter-of-fact nature to a lot of the violence may be off-putting for some.
If you're looking for a fun action "superhero" movie, with a darker edge, this is a must see.
It was better than I thought it would be. it begins slowly but still somehow introduces some important concepts too fast. Action sequences are not bad and there are a lot of fun moments. Tom Hardy is really great and the interaction with Venom is nice. Overall, it was entertaining but didn't get me as invested in the story as it could have.
And about the post-credits scene: Woody Harrelson is looking too much like Sideshow Bob. Best carnage ever!
So much better than the other Marvel films. Almost as fun and entertaining as Deadpool. Sony makes the better movies than Disney.
An enjoyable superhero? film with some great acting by Tom Hardy. The villain left a lot to be desired, but the interactions between Eddy and the Symbiote were pretty funny.
The action scenes had some great shots but in general I preferred and would have liked more of a narrative. The story itself was very barebones.
But overall, the fun character interactions made it an enjoyable watch.
Look I know autism makes you all insane and stuff but this movie genuinely did something to me and you are a loser if you don’t get this movie. Tom Hardy was fucking amazing as Eddie Brock and Venom, definitely my favourite rendition of the two characters.
I really enjoyed this. Every thing fit so well but I wish he was just abit darker, more deadly. More colour, more scare. The acting was amazing, the sound effects were done well and the plot was decent.
If you are looking for a movie that will provide you with endless laughs, then Venom may not be the best choice. However, if you are in the mood for some action-packed fun and a dose of majorly weird humour, then this film is definitely worth checking out. Tom Hardy’s performance as Eddie Brock and Venom is a highlight of the movie and had me both cringing and laughing at the same time. Overall, “Venom” earns 3 out of 5 stars for its wild, wacky, and occasionally downright hilarious take on the beloved comic book character.
:heart::heart::heart::heart::heart::heart::heart::heart::heart::heart: - Venom is without a doubt my only One of THE best Marvel films. Tom Hardy both as Eddie Brock and Venom is attention-grabbing every time he's on the screen. Venom is absolutely fantastic. 10/10
Here's how my rating system works:
10:heart:- Masterpiece :100:
9:heart:- Excellent
8:heart: - Amazing :ok_hand:
7:heart:- Great :sun_with_face:
6:heart: - Good :thumbsup:
5:heart: - Average :head_bandage:
4:heart: - Bad but watchable :octagonal_sign:
3:heart: - Bad :sob:
2:heart:- Awful :face_vomiting:
1:heart: - Bull Shit :zzz:
The best scene is when he looks in the mirror...
I feel like that every morning.
Apart from that, the action scenes were action-packed and the quiet parts were not boring. Especially the German dubbing of Venom was awesome. That's how I would like to be able to speak.
I'm still very fresh in the Marvel universe and have nothing to complain about. Great movie.
Only rating 6 because there were some potholes. Still a fun movie to watch once and never again.
NOT MY FAVOURITE AND I THOUGHT THE 1ST HALF OF THE MOVIE WAS SUCH A GRIND. THE CGI IS WONKY AT BEST AND THE STORY JUST LIMPED ALONG AT IT'S OWN PACE.
YES EDDIE AND VENOM ARE DEFINITELY THE BEST PART, EVERYONE ELSE WERE JUST PARTS AS YOU COULDN'T HAVE JUST TOM ON SET.
I DID NOT LIKE MICHELLE
ARE SHOULD I SAY THE ONE WHO WASN'T PEPPER POTS
THIS ONE WAS JUST TRYING TO BE A CHEAP KNOCK OFF VERSION OF THAT GODDESS AND SHE WAS A EPIC FAIL. SHE JUST ANNOYED ME MORE THAN OWT.
NO CHEMISTRY, NO CHARISMA, SHE HAD A STICK UP HER ASS SND SHE JUST WASN'T FUNNY AT ALL, AND DIDN'T FIT IN AT ALL IN THIS MOVIE.
VERY GENERIC BAD GUY,
BAD JUST COS HE CAN BE AND NOBODY GROW IN THE MOVIE APART FROM EDDIE AND VENOM.
RIOT WAS PRETTY PISS POOR n ALL.
AND I'M A LITTLE DISAPPOINTED THAT EDDIE NEVER AVENGED ARE MENTION HIS HOMELESS PERSON FRIEND WHEN GE GOT CHANCE WITH THE MAIN BAD GUY, IT WOULD GAVE BEEN A NICE MENTION JUST TO REALLY PROVE TO ME THAT HE CARED AND IS WORTHY OF BEING CALLED A ANTI-HERO
I JUST DON'T THINK HE GAVE A SHIT ABOUT MUCH REALLY, EVEN AT THE END. ANYWAY FAIR MOVIE 6/10
TONIGHT I'M ON WITH VENOM 2
THEN I CAN GET BACK TO THE MCU WHERE THE PROPER SUPER HERO STUFF IS, YOU KNOW THE SUPER AWESOME AMAZING FRICKIN FANTASTIC SPECTACULAR
THE INFINITY SAGA
if you will.
BLACK PANTHER
your up
Then
THOR RAGNAROK
now this is what I'm
talking about
I thought in some parts of the film, the effects are gross. The villain doesn't have a good development (just like the rest of the characters, excluding Eddie Brock), he is just bad because he is bad.
Tom Hardy and Michelle Williams don't have chemistry and I feel some parts of the script (that it is lazy as hell) are forced, there are also some silly catchphrases and the movie uses a lot of the "deus ex-machina" resource. At least there are good action scenes (that could be more violent) and I could see one of the best Stan Lee apparition.
movie for kids. Too much CGI, too much over acting, too much bad jokes.
3:asterisk_symbol: Good but not as good as first movie. A bit gory.
The scripts are trash and everyone's but tom hardy acting feels uncomfortable. I watched it with my girlfriend just to expend time together and it was funny but i wouldn't watch it again.
Reboot, or rather a decent opening of the Venom thread. It will be an interesting cross-over if Venom were to be the bad guy against Spider-man. ;>
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.
This isn't a good, Oscar-worthy movie, but it's a fun watch and I love it. It is a little slow until Venom becomes part of the story, but it's worth it; on rewatches I often skip through the first twenty minutes or so. Riz Ahmed is an utterly loathsome villain who feels like a deliberate jab at Elon Musk, and Tom Hardy is fantastic.
A nice movie with great humor. :sparkling_heart:
I hope the sequel is better.
I'm so glad I didn't spent money on the theater to see this. Some movies is better to wait until is available on streaming, we could just skip some parts and do something else during the boring parts, and there are a lot of these parts of Venom. But I'm feeling that the next Venom will be a lot better since now they already told his origin story. Even if I didn't like Venom, I'm really looking forward for Carnage (which by the way is my favorite villain of all time).
the banter between Venom and tom hardy is fond
Talk about a movie stuck in the middle ground. Taking a supervillain and trying to turn him into a quasi-hero where the villain is most know for his gruesome body count was always going to be an uphill battle. It seems like they wanted to keep enough of the Venom character traits to draw fans in but couldn't go truly dark (which I think is needed for this character) to make a compelling story. As it is, this movie gives you a generic over the top antagonist,some very obvious character motivations, and the prerequisite amount of action, much of it a muddled CGI mess. It wasn't terrible, but it was not much more than a painfully average comic book film.
Saw this in theaters and HATED it. Saw it at home (with some edibles) and it was ok. Venom definitely deserves a better movie, but for now this'll do. Tom Hardy probably deserves more credit, this is a tough part to play. He's not bad at acting possessed by a symbiote parasite. I mean, it's not like there's a manual for that, right? Good job, Tom.
It's a lot of Eddie being sweaty and screaming while Venom does his symbiote crap to the people around him. Don't get me wrong, that makes for some of the best parts of the movie (especially when Venom gets snarky), but it seems like they stumble around for far too long before the writers were, like, "Crap, we have to do some plot stuff now."
I feel like I didn't quite buy into anyone's motivations in this movie, especially Venom's. He's painted to be pretty evil, but then ends up doing something that goes completely against his character as they set up in this movie. It's almost like they wrote a movie about a heroic main character, then repurposed it so a villain was the protagonist.
The bad guy is weakly written; your stereotypical visionary that likes to monologue in broad terms about how 'humanity is weak' and all that, but never really feels threatening. He's just kind of a heartless monster for the sake of the story. With a weak villain and a poorly written story, the pieces don't seem to fit quite right, and it makes it fall pretty flat.
Fun movie, with a dash of action and laughs. If you don't take the movie seriously, you'll have a good time.
Would almost give it a 6, but that's just for Hardy and not entirely fair in the overall look at it.
Most of it was just terribly predictable, and large parts of the rest were ... predictably terrible. Except for the conversations between Venom and Eddie, and Venom eating annoying bitches. Excuse the language.
Besides being predictable, there's just so much wrong with it. So much, being the writing?
It just irked me from the start. Like someone loves you, they lose their job and they dump you instantly... that's not love. Don't portray their relationship like they're a loving, sweet couple who know each other inside out if you're going to want to justify something like that. Including how Annie has a new BF basically the moment she's dumped Eddie. Like... come on. That only works if you're a man, or whether the guy you were with didn't mean shit to you. Again, don't write a relationship like they love each other when they're only acting like they don't.
Her so-called justification that it was all Eddie's doing... is a little immature given the fact that she just dumped his ass and threw all his shit out the moment she realised he "used" her for a story and got her fired. Real people would have had some sort of conversation at least.
Then there's a lot of little things that just annoy me. Like the first host in the lab, he just stops screaming as the thing crawls up him like suddenly it’s not scary anymore versus wouldn't be that the most terrifying moment of your entire life, and then he’s like where did it where did it go... Come ON.
Then uh Venom says he knows everything about Eddie because he’s in his head but then he asks who Anne is. Seriously?! WHO WROTE THIS. Don't tell me. I don't actually want to know.
I suppose mentioning things like how people react so quickly to riot in the launch room... humans are way slower to process things and actually react, the brain is a slug, but screen time is precious so... I guess that one is excused :joy:
Ack, sad. I really wanted this to be a good movie. It has such cool potential.
The story was not have a litle bit sense, the action was not bad was ok, but the story, Venom was need to bee a Villain not a superhero.
Well, I was expecting something different, but I can't say it was a waste of time. It's a good movie, with some great moments and one great performance by Tom Hardy. The beginning was slow and the ended felted rushed and I wanted more Eddie/Venom moments... it was all to quick after a lot of time setting up the plot. It's almost 2 hours of movie, but you don't get bored, I think. It leaves you wanting more, that's all.
In my opinion, it's not terrible but it's not that good, but I would recommend it for the fans of Marvel and superheroes and stuff. Just don't have the expectation it's a funny movie with some action scenes and some plot... because it's a action movie, with some humor and a well-thought plot but not that well-explored.
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Venom is unfortunately everything I feared it would be. This year has been especially brutal to blockbusters as studios are rushing to neuter their projects in hopes of recouping losses from spending too much on their budgets, even though Logan, Deadpool, and IT have proven R rated films can be monster hits. We've seen Jason Statham trash talk The Meg just days before release, and while that may have made half a billion dollars, no one is talking about it and is already culturally irrelevant. These are the kinds of movies were are putting on the top box office charts; shit we don't even like. Now we have Tom Hardy depressingly revealing in interviews all his favorite bits to film were cut out the movie, something a good forty minutes. It shows, the editing and pacing of this movie is a haphazard mess. Scenes come and go so quickly, you're never sure what emotion to be feeling. Eddie breaks up with his fiancée and like, it jump cuts six months later so quickly and he's being goofy. Events transpire like fingers snapping, so a lot of it becomes a blur. One of the scientist ladies comes to Brock because she thinks evil baddy, Drake, is doing immoral research using the symbiotes. She seems kind of interesting, but her only purpose is to dispel hideously bland exposition, make a snappy one liner to a security guard, get caught, then given as a test subject to a symbiote. No one in this pile of cinematic universe dreck is given an ounce of character development outside of Eddie. Tom Hardy shines in the few moments he gets to chow down on some frozen tater tots, but they're cluttered in between headache inducing action scenes that can't show any violence. Upgrade just came out a couple months ago and that's a better Venom movie than this, beaming with a better paced story and much more paid off emotion (the first ten minutes had me near crying), plus, hardcore violence. I hate to play the IMDB audience normie reviewer, but I'm just going to say it, imagination is for pussies. If I'm dropping down $12+ on ticket, and it's not explicitly an arthouse film, you're damn right I'm going to be mad when violence is happening as part of the set piece and you don't show it on screen, especially if that's the selling point of a movie. This was so clearly shot to be R, I could just picture the blood splattering and grotesque imagery, but because of the editing, it's not there. The PG-13 curse has robbed us of Venom ripping people's faces to shreds. Oh sure, they imply it, hell, he does it a few times, but the cutting happens so quick, it's like he swallows them whole and quickly disposed of off screen. Venom resorts to just jumping all around the room and throwing people into walls. The disappointment I feel watching a freaking Venom film, a property that's come from a more serious comic book series and has the potential to withhold a three hour R rated epic shows how much the mark has gone left field. Sony would rather make the character as friendly as possible and able to blend right in to the Marvel Cinematic Universe if I buy out would happen. This is the movie industry today. I saw a review for this movie in a magazine that mistakenly categorized this as a film in the Infinity War. I don't blame them. I can't tell the difference. The stink you get from the formulaic quips, forgettable villains, and regurgitated hero origin story could fit right alongside Ant-Man. What a bollocks shame.
There is just something great between Eddie and Venom, this duo makes most of the scenes and dialogues between those two are sometimes even hilarious.
Tom Hardy does fantastic job, he just feels right to be Venom, and I’d say that he brings some authenticity in it. However, rest of the cast just seems a bit forgotten in my view.
As an example let’s take Carlton Drake, played by Riz Ahmed, I don’t want to critique Riz’s acting, but rather I just want to note that he did not feel right for the role. Maybe that’s just me with some old fart thinking that crazy-billionaire-scientist should look a bit different. How exactly I won’t tell, but just the fact that he as Carlton did not really impress me – gave me that “meh” feel.
Nevertheless, it has its faults – some more than others.
Excited for sequel, looking forward to see more of it, but that’s for other review.
I extremely enjoyed this. Very well done, pace, effects, awesomeness. Maybe it’s also because I saw Star Wars IX couple days ago, dunno.
Really didn't need to be made.
I only liked the last 5 minutes of the movie. It does felt a little boring. And I just wanted to see more of Venom/Eddie shenanigans. Like I was expecting a bit more humor.
a lot of people didn't like this movie, however I found it to be one of the best Superhero/Villain movies in a long time. I think what made me love it the most was the repertoire between Eddy and Venom. it just seemed to bring it all together for me. Each to his/her own :D
And they say there are millions of these bugs. I hope there are many others like Venom and that they are good people like him.
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Very poor film, just saved by Tom Hardy; but in general lines, is the worst I ever seen, with very poor CGI... even in complete darkness.