It's gonna be....carnage.

The post credit sequence of the 2018 franchise starter created a lot of excitement. Firstly because of the promise that one of Marvel's most popular villains was finally getting a big screen debut, and secondly that Woody Harrelson had been cast in the part.

I said before this film that Harrelson has been in some films that were not great, but I have yet to see him turn in a bad performance.

This is true here. With limited background included in the script his performance is energetic and outlandish enough to capture the heart of the character, but not enough time or focus is given to him to really show the level of threat the character has always had.

In terms of the title character, Hardy returns where we left him as "looser" Eddie Brock who is having issues with his intrusive room mate.

The back and forth between Eddie and Venom that was popular in the first film returns. The humour mostly lands but it does feel like the troupe is a little overused at times.

The plot is pretty simplistic, and could have been so much richer giving better service to its two leads and a criminally underused Naomie Harris. The story is restricted and seems to have been sacrificed for a shorter screen time.

This is a movie that promised and lot, but the delivery left me wanting more, and not in a way that I wanted it too.