Nice to know Superman exists in the Marvel Universe.

Earlier this year, I watched Upgrade and followed that incredible movie with a review of this film, Venom, where the reviewer did a hilarious side-by-side comparison between the two films. As funny as that was, it wasn't 50% accurate. 2018's Upgrade was 5x the movie Venom was.

That said, Venom was still somewhat worth watching, if only for the hunk Tom Hardy is. In the first half, anyways.

After an enormously long first act, we finally got to some of the symbiotic goods. Generic rich bad guy brings back a parasite (sorry!) from space, but fails at finding the perfect host. Enter in Bane, sorry, not him or the 3rd villain from Spider-Man 3 and Venom is born.

Follow that by some so-so action scenes with several horrible CGI effects, we finally land on a plot and the final act can put us to sleep. Well, it did me. I literally had to rewind it several times to complete the climactic battle between two battling blobs.

Sad thing is, while said first half was slow, at least Tom Hardy's Eddie Brock and other characters were interesting and deep. The moment the CGI hit the bodies, Hardy turned into a cartoon and comically bad to watch. It was like two completely different movies for him to star in and lost me.

Additionally, it felt like the script just needed one, maybe two more rewrites. The whole movie felt disjointed at times and almost a chore to finish. Also, Venom/Eddie Brock's not just an antihero, he's a straight up murderer...so stop trying to get me to be on his side!

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Final thoughts: Boy, do I miss Spider-Man. Guess I better see his animated movie soon in theatres and wash this black goo right off me.