What's positive: Tom Hardy is perfect for the role and gives a great performance. Venom's appearance and powers are faithfully adapted. An extreme improvement over the Spider-Man 3 (2007) version of Venom who didn't look like Eddie Brock or Venom.

What's negative: This movie was made by a director and studio guys who a.) don't care much about the source material, b.) don't understand the source material and c.) are driven by greed.

A Venom movie done right would be R-rated, because Venom is no hero, but he is very dark and kills a lot of people. Also it would have Carnage as the antagonist, because this is the best and most iconic villain. There would be no forced comedy and no forced romance.

The Venom movie we got:
In short: Greedy studio and bad director show what's wrong in Hollywood: PG-13, forced comedy, forced romance, hyper editing and everything as big as possible.

This movie is not as bad as garbage like Fantastic Four (2015). It has good aspects, but it could be so much more.