If you loved Venom, don't watch this movie. If you respect Tom Hardy, look the other way. Sequels are almost always damaging to a great original. This one is more than devastating. The only venom was in how it poisoned the Venom name and image of the much smarter & entertaining original. The real carnage in this movie was the destruction of fans' belief that Mr. Hardy wouldn't choose to waste his talent on a third-rate movie. Just making a monster cartoonishly larger and pumping up the volume of a cacophony of often laughable scenes of demolition does not a bigger hit make. But the noise did help keep me from falling asleep from the lame, contrived, and yawn-inducing "plot"!