If you're a fan of the actual character Venom, you know, the monstrous villain to Spider-Man from comics and cartoons, then you'll hate this. This isn't venom at all. Not the story, not the origin, and not even the same character in personality. This is a funny buddy cop type anti hero movie with a character that borrows most of the looks from an actual established awesome character from Spider-Man's world.

I can't stress this enough, this isn't Venom the cool alien villain who is a mockery of Spider-Man and one of his best villains. Venom shouldn't even exist without Spider-Man, not in name or looks. Venom's looks come from Spider-Man's looks. Everything about Venom comes from Spider-Man and the anger both the symboite and Eddie have towards Spider-Man. He isn't a good guy with stupid jokes. Venom is the combination of Eddie and the symboite, the name deriving from Spider-Man to challenge him. No Spider-Man origin of Venom gives venom no purpose. He's just a silly alien with a human body which allows him to form into a tangible monster. Eddie kinda just takes a back seat when the alien symboite takes over. They should work together as two beings forming into one being, that being is called Venom. This movie treats Venom like a friendly demon possessed Eddie and now they've become buddy roommates.

This movie isn't remotely representative of the actual venom. It's like they made up a whole new character and borrowed venoms looks for the most part.

I couldn't get past that aspect as it makes everything make no sense for venoms existence. However, if you know nothing about Venom or Spider-Man, you might like this movie. It's entertaining for sure, but even then, it isn't that great of a movie. Very mediocre.

I'm a die hard Spider-Man fan and grew up living in the world of Spider-Man, he was my everything as a child. I loved venom as a character and he was so cool against Spider-Man. One of my favorite villains. This movie made a joke out of him. I want to see the actual venom in an actual Spider-Man origin film.

This would be a somewhat fun movie if it wasn't suppose to be about Venom from Spider-man's world. I can't get passed the disappointment. Sad this movie will probably soon take over on what venom actually is and people will love Venom due to this movie, and not love the actual venom from the source material. Just more reshaping of characters and leaving the original ones to slowly fade away, watching as their name and looks are stolen to form a new version that loses the heart of what made them a character worth loving.