I was really wanting to like this movie, so I gave it a chance. Even though audiences liked it and critics hated it, I still wanted to see what it had to offer. This is one of the laziest films I've ever seen, and it felt as if everyone involved simply gave up with the character build-up and screenplay. The story was at least decent, yet it was half of what it could have been. I was actually fascinated the concept, but it treats the audience as if we don't know anything about good filmmaking... because the acting was pretty awful, and they delivered some of the most cliché, cheesy, and most overused phrases and sections of dialogue we've seen in films countless times. Yes, people will absolutely love this movie. But I was let down, and to be honest... I was really annoyed at how bad the dialogue and character development really was, and how the creators had a project on their hands in which they could've excelled at and given us something new. But unfortunately, we were treated with one of the most uninspired screenplays in years, along with the entire film trying to be many things in which it wasn't. This movie was barely watchable, and I would not recommend this movie to anyone looking for a true escape. Within the first ten minutes... I knew where the film was headed. The creators followed the typical Hollywood norms, tropes, and clichés. This movie was driven by predictability and something audiences would feel familiar with, which is something that really gets on my nerves. This movie had at least two or three enjoyable moments in my opinion. But the film as a whole was extremely and painfully predictable, cheesy, uninspired, poorly executed, and was afraid to give us something unfamiliar, in other words... fresh and new. Venom had the chance to be great, but it failed on so many levels for me.