The design of Venom is better than the one from Spider-Man 3, he looks like he's straight out of the comics. That is where the good aspects of this movie end for me.

Sony had been trying to get a Venom movie made ever since the aforementioned Spider-Man 3. Though I'm a fan of the Venom character, I never particularly felt that he needed his own solo movie but still I remained cautiously optimistic about it. My expectations for Venom weren't particularly high to begin with but somehow it still managed to disappoint me.

The first major issue with Venom as a story is the lack of Peter Parker. A big part of both Eddie Brock and Venom's characters is their relationship with Peter Parker/Spider-Man, in fact he is the very reason that the Venom character we know even exists. Take away Spider-Man and you take away a big part of Venom's character and the story that makes him so interesting as an antihero.

Since Spider-Man is not in this story, Eddie Brock instead is turned into a generic hero type who lacks the complexity of his comic counterpart. Throughout the movie he reluctantly helps the Venom symbiote whose motivations and loyalty are ambiguous and unclear.

The actors give okay performances but feel like they aren't giving it their all. Supposedly Tom Hardy only agreed to be Venom because his son likes the character and it shows.

The attempts at humour are cringe inducing and often fall flat. It feels like they were trying to imitate the MCU's style of humour but it honestly feels more like the kind of humour you'd find in a Michael Bay Transformers movie.

The villain is forgettable and ultimately just ends up being a silver version of Venom. The CGI in the big fight between the two characters also doesn't look very good.

Overall I'm not really sure what everyone sees in Venom that makes it such a masterpiece, they must have been watching a completely different film. Despite my dislike of this Venom movie, I hope they will manage to fix some of these issues in the sequel and perhaps then we can get a worthy big screen adaptation of this character.