I mean it kicks off well. But the more it goes on, the compelling ideas Venom sets up are abandoned. In it's place: a mostly CGI mess of a superhero movie.

Venom never takes the time to flesh out the backstory of the abilities that take over Tom Hardy. So we're left with a super-powered creature that does all kind of stuff because it looks cool, I guess? It's kind of a parable of the working man vs. corporate America, it's kind of a buddy movie, it's kind of lots of superhero movies we know- Spiderman, Hulk, Deadpool, but mostly it's a messy plate of half-rendered ideas. And Hardy and the rest of a solid cast can't save it.