Venom is pretty much a cookie cutter action flick. It plays with the what made the original film successful. Letting the protagonist take over AND consume us with their natural charm.

Hardy and Michelle Williams made the film. As already said, the screenplay is awful. The convenient-for-its-own-good storytelling, Venom lazily becoming the narrator of the film, and the awkward scripting (ie the jokes).

I felt that the film biggest problem of the film is that it does not know how to handle the ideas they had. Unlike the more successful Marvel films, it has no grand feeling of an epic. The stakes is pretty much spelled out as the villains is one dimensional played straight and boringly to hell.

In addition, the presence of Venom is too much. He is already the internal narrator/voice of reason in the film AND that felt extremely annoying at times. He just cannot do no wrong. Also, the jokes would falls flat for much less comedic actors (i.e. The new MCU actors). Kudos to Hardy in knowing how to camp it up. He, Michelle Williams and Reid Scott (famous for his role in Veep) plays up the aspect of the film really well.

Overall, the film is fun BUT empty. Forgettable [5/10].