To be honest I wanted to see what the audience saw that critics didn't. And I went into this movie expecting it. This film is so boring bland and uninventive. Definitely would have appealed more possibly maybe 10 years ago, back to when the genre wasn't overly saturated and well known. But no, even then this films script is god awful and so bad. One of the worst scripts written of 2018, surprising enough the same writer wrote the script for aquaman which was a film that I overall enjoyed but the script was my biggest issue and of course it had to be the same person. The only thing this movie has going for itself is the performance by Tom Hardy, he steals the show with his acting and performance as usual. Everything else was either bad or generic. Even the venom character was so god awful. (I'm not a fan of judging a film so harshly on CGI and I won't do that, in fact I thought it was solid work with the effects department, and it wasn't distracting me from the plot so I'm ok with effects, and if anyone uses that as a reason to bash this film I think it's unfair, if that's that case you should bash older movies back in the 70s for having effects that weren't good) but back to venom, his CGI was great, his character was so terrible, THIS MOVIE SHOULD HAVE TRANSCENDED THE GENRE TO NEW TERRITORY, think about it VENOM is a VILLAIN not a HERO. Sure I'm familiar with comics and he was a anti hero in some, but this movie missed the mark to create a unique film, this movie is so bland and generic I felt as if I watched it before, the characters are boring the villain is even more boring the CGI final fight was ehh, and the ending is ugh, the action is so repetitive and unnecessary, this movie was god awful and the soundtrack was even worse, this movie is the downfall as compared to Eminem's song for this movie which was probably arguably even more worse and annoying than the film itself. (AND IM A HUGE FAN OF SLIM SHADY) Venom should have been DCs joker. Taking a villain and making a compelling story of the villain landscape, but no they turn him into a forced PG13 freak forced terrible dialogue and a plot so boring and far from original that the only interesting thing this movie has going for itself is the concept of the symbiotic/human relationship which for me gets interesting with Tom hardy and venom until it gets annoying and the performance by Tom hardy holds this film up. THATS IT. The acting is all around actually good as well, it's just the script that really holds the film so far back and it's the characters around Eddie that make it so boring that I don't even like the characters no matter how good their acting and performance is.

Acting 7/10 Script 2/10 Plot 3/10 Screenplay 5/10 Cinematography 4/10 Soundtrack 2/10 Special Effects 7/10 Editing 4/10

Overall Venom has its moments to be held and saved nearly by Tom hardy, but the film was shot so blandly the bad script takes over the film very much and the compelling aspect that makes a film unique doesn't even feel like it's there, feels as if the director forced it to be there. This film should have been such indistinguishable and more hah just another generic boring story. Am I saying they can't make a pg13 venom movie? NO, and I think going a anti hero route can be cool, but this movie isn't doing it folks, and I am sure if they went the darker direction into diving into the villain side it would have been much better, but no, Sony wanted that money and these people gave it to them for this garbage film. terrible film 5/10 and that's just being nice