Venom tries it's hardest to entertain an audience so used to the constant waves of superhero flicks and instead forgets to be at all captivating. Extremely predictable throughout, I was not impressed by this mess of a film.

Personally I find Tom Hardy to be quite a decent actor with my favourite portrayal of him being his performance in 2015's Mad Max Fury Road. In Venom he plays our main character Eddie Brock, quite an amiable everyday man, who works as a news presenter in his own personal feature. I believe his version of the beloved comic book character was relatively well-done compared to other depictions of recent years (Spider Man 3 as an example). However he could only carry this character so far because of the abhorrent script which in my opinion was the clear-cut worst part of this film. After the rise of the Marvel Universe movies every superhero film has felt the need to adopt their constant quippy humour, which can be used quite effectively when it's fits the correct tone, but this was executed very poorly in Venom's case. You'll have a seemingly serious scene setting a darker tone and then instantly switch back to Tom Hardy popping off one-liners completely destroying the aura the film hoped to create.

I found our villain of Venom to be quite weak because of the little development he got throughout the picture and as many have already mentioned I believe that most of the films problems could be solved with a slightly longer runtime, more fleshed out script and stronger villain. I'm hoping to write another review of this film when I get to see it again but for now these are my initial impressions.