I usually ignore critics and come here to IMDB to get honest reviews, but the user base here let me down big time. First off, thanks to those of you who did rate the movie low for obvious reasons. This review goes straight to the knuckleheads who criticized the bad user reviews.

First of all, to put things in perspective, I don't think I've ever picked up a comic book in my life unless it was because a real book was underneath it. So the problems some users had with the absence of Spider Man or the fact that Venom wasn't as badass as he is supposed to be didn't give me any issues. This is a real movie review from a non comic book fan. I should also say that doesn't mean I find fault with every comic book movie. I loved both Deadpools, enjoyed Fantastic Four, didn't really like the last Avengers movie but liked the ones before that. I like Guardians of the Galaxy, Batman and Superman are meh. Thor is pretty cool. Point is, I watch these things and it's not like I avoid them like the plague.

Venom is like an Adam Sandler movie. No, not one of the classics. We aren't talking Billy Madison or Happy Gilmore, we are talking Jack and Jill bad. I agree with the users who made it seem like Venom was going to go dark, but just withered. It's like when your big brother jumps out of the closet to scare you but in the end you see he's just wearing a white sheet and was too lazy to even cut out or draw on eyes and a mouth. The jokes I was expecting to be funny based on user views here must not have made it into the cut I watched. I think I maybe laughed once. There's just not really much of this movie I liked, whether it was a 40 something Michelle Williams dressing like a university Freshman, or the attempts at slapstick that made it look like the script writer fell asleep and his 14 year old filled in some blanks mad libs style. It was just not intelligently written, poorly stylized, lacked any cinematic beauty, and the action wasn't all that interesting. The only redeeming quality was that of Hardy's acting. He's legitimately a good actor. The rest is drivel.