The most painfully awful, embarrassingly awkward performance by Tom Hardy since 'This Means War'. It's like he's being blackmailed into or forced at gunpoint to play this tragically unfunny wisecracking super-buff tattooed reporter.

We can always rely on Woody Harrelson to turn on the hamminess when required (let's face it.. he can do anything), and really shows Tom Hardy up for his apparent limits.

Michelle Williams seems to have turned up to the wrong set and just did it to get it over with before she moves on to a better project.

Apart from all that, it's a mildly passable evening of okay visual effects & stunts, but doubling the amount of Venom does not improve on the first film.