I persuaded my wife to come see this movie, based mainly on Tom Hardy, who's always worth a watch. She's not a big fan of 'sci-fi', or any similar sub-genre, but, I assured her, its bound to be watchable. Sure, Mr H was watchable as ever. But his grinning, lip-licking alter-ego was just daft. At one point, the creature, Venom, actually said something like 'Me like her', rather than 'I like her.' Just like the Cookie Monster. And of course it went on about 34 minutes too long. And of course the long, drawn-out CGI fight scenes were yawningly predictable. I'm afraid it just reminded me why we go to the movies so infrequently.