Film Review: Venom (NO SPOILERS)

I'll skip going over the premise because everyone knows what it's about

This movie was really that bad. I mean it's not a Batman and Robin kinda bad but it is just a passable unnecessary film.

I heard a lot of people were saying this film isn't as bad as critics said it is but I ended up agreeing with what the critics said.

I didn't find any redeeming quality in it. This film wastes too much time to establish what it needs to. They spend nearly an hour going over stuff that could have been over with in the opening fifteen to twenty minutes.

There's too much of Eddie Brock and too less of Venom. I found Eddie Brock to be a very one dimensional paper thin protagonist. Tom Hardy was just OKAY in terms of acting. I don't know why people are praising him so much.

Michelle Williams and Riz Ahmed are totally miscast in their roles. Not only that, their characters are very one dimensional too. All characters in this film are one dimensional except for the Venom symbiote itself which was intriguing and had a few funny lines.

There are lot of unnecessary cringe-y attempts at comedy in this film. The only time it was kinda working was when Eddie and Venom had a conversation. The comedic tone clashed with the supposed dark tone of the film. Tonally, this was a mess. What is this film trying to be? A nicolas cage style comedy? A dark and gritty monster film?. It just ended up being a generic #1000 blockbuster action film you'd usually see The Rock in minus Rock's charisma.

A generic story is no problem if you can find new ways of telling your story. Venom follows the same pattern you'd see in any origin story except it takes too long before anything interesting happens and when something remotely interesting occurs, you realize the film is about to end

The action scenes felt incoherent and hard to follow at times. And if you have seen the clips and the trailers, you have seen pretty much all the decent sequences.

By the time I got near the end, I realized at least there's at least a CGI filled finale which is always cool to see but who gives the damn when the rest of the film does a piss poor job of building up to it. And the ending was very quick and abrupt.

This was a very unnecessary quick cash grab by Sony. Venom is a cool bad ass character and his dynamic with Eddie is interesting but Eddie himself is very dull.

It sets up a sequel and I kinda want to see the sequel instead of this film. I honestly think they should have avoided doing an origin story when it's this simple. We didn't need this film. It was totally unnecessary and forgettable. They should have followed whatever they are gonna do in the sequel for part one instead of making this film.

If you were looking forward to this film, maybe you should see it instead of letting my review ruin your anticipation but this is my opinion on the film. But I don't think this film is worth your money. You deserve better. I don't know what people saw in this film that made some people say "It is really good" but if you liked it, good for you.

Suicide Squad had some redeeming quality and BvS was quite good compared to this. Most mediocre films like Kong Skull Island etc etc do. This film? there's barely any redeeming quality about it.

Final Rating: 4.4