You got a movie starring a badass killer alien, a clowny serial killer and his GF, a newborn sadistic even more badass alien... and you managed to make it boring? This is not one of those "It could have been great if the director had tried", this one was BEGGING to be epic. The previous film was praised for the chemistry Venom and Eddie had, and the funny sequences in which they had to live together were great. But this film turned that to 11 and straight up tried to be a sitcom for like the first hour of the movie. Then there is Carnage... could you imagine Carnage being like a sadistic baby? Calling Kassidy an his GF (who BTW had so little to do that I literally forgot his name) daddy and mommy? Could you imagine him toying with humans, or having daddy issues with Venom? Could you imagine him being funny or... interesting or... something? There was, SO many things one could have done with Carnage, but instead thy chose to do nothing. He has no personality, no motives, no nothing. It is just a Red symbiont, and it is defeated exactly as all the symbionts are. Hell, Riot had more character that him, and his personality was just being an Alpha. But worst of all, I think, was Eddie's character. He went from a down on his luck, renegade reporter, to a winning and complaining little annoyance. Narrative speaking, the fact that he is always stopping Venom from eating bad guys makes sense. After all, IRL eating humans is gross. But cinematically speaking, this makes Eddie antagonistic to the audience, since the only reason we are in the cinema is to watch Venom do cool stuff. Kassidy's half-baked, archetypical serial killer backstory was the most entertaining part of the movie, and that is saying something. Simply speaking, nothing happens in this movie. Venom and Eddie fight a little at the beginning, the Kassidy does a Bowser on Eddie, they fight, and that's it. Seriously disappointing...