Besides its unimaginative story and conventional progression, it has moments that just cause shivers to run down your spine due to secondhand embarrassment. Unlike other Marvel titles, Sony is clearly restricted to spider-man and his supporting cast. For this title, however, they seemingly made the decision to remove Venom from any shared universe. As such, Venom's origin story is very far removed from its comic counterpart and despite having strong overlap with spider-man's design the movie makes no connection between them at all.

A missed opportunity for Sony was to be the first to have a villain origin movie, which could easily culminate into a spider-man vs. venom movie where neither hero nor villain needs more than half of the movie's running time to get established. Instead, Venom is sort of a hero but edgier. As if you were watching a deadpool movie without humor.

After all the nonsense stuff venom was saying and stupid decisions he was making, I finally called it quits when venom casually revealed he was a loser on his home planet (I almost quit when he just casually revealed his weaknesses to someone he hardly knew). In just a handful of seconds they established a (very poor) reason for Venom to become a good guy and it sucked.