Tom Hardy & Venom are very fun to watch, I'd happily watch a sequel, but what it needs is a new creative team behind it. The film doesn't seem to know what it is. Ruban Fleischer has an eye for visuals but the guy has directed four feature films, only one of any critical and audience success was Zombieland. The entire cast, especially Michelle Williams and Riz Ahmed are wasted with poor dialogue and weirdly placed monologues.

Overall, Venom is not a turd in the wind, it is not Catwoman level of bad, but it is not on the same level of MCU blend of humour and action, which unfortunately it seems to try to achieve.