Directed by: Ruben Fleischer
Release date: October 5th, 2018
Rating: 7/10
Venom is an entertaining, yet unoriginal superhero flick. Tom Hardy is easily the best part of the film, but the rest of the characters are dull. His ability to act opposite himself was amazing. I haven’t seen acting like that in a superhero movie in quite awhile. However that doesn’t make up for the rest of the movie’s mistakes. The first act was dull and the third act went by too quickly. I would’ve much rather spent more time watching the dynamic between Eddie Brock and Venom. Venom himself looks decent. The CGI isn’t awful but could’ve been better. Still a large improvement from Spider-Man 3’s attempt at bringing the character to the big screen. I’m very interested in seeing the 30-40 minutes that got cut which Hardy liked the most. Overall it was a fun movie with plenty of missteps but a great lead performance that is a solid standalone film for a great character.