Disclaimer: My most definite introduction and impression of Venom has been from the 90's Spider-man: TAS. I thought, it'd be a great, gritty anti-hero movie.

After BvS and Suicide Squad I tempered my expectations, I expected nothing. Maybe I was in the closet, when it came to my expectations.

It's an extremely generic action movie, it seems cool for a few minutes, has an Alien type of vibe when it starts, but as it rolls along nothing really unfolds much and maybe it doesn't really need to, because Eddie having the symbiote would be interesting enough. But the movie doesn't do anything with it. The "edgy confrontational" reporter from "Nu-Yooock" is what you get, which I guess was to be expected, judging by the trailers. And it just goes on as this sort of cartoonish buddy-cop flick.

There is no interesting duality to the Eddie Brock/Venom character, it's not even that violent. It often feels like a boy and his dog flick, the symbiote spites Eddie in very generic comedic ways, helps fix his relationships, even starts to like other characters. There's nothing NOT banal or generic about Eddie, the villain and his plans, the symbiotes and "their plan". You can't even spoil this movie. You've seen it. Trust me.

You saw the symbiote talking in the trailer and comparing how that was shown in the Spider-man:TAS, it just dawns on you how not subtle it is. It adds another layer of lame, the opposite of "show, don't tell". Couple of elements of blatant expositions here and there as well.

If it were anymore toothless, thoughtless and generic, you'd probably have Eddie showing Venom a hip-hop song and then maybe at the end teach it to get jiggy or whatever.

The SFX were cool. Venom looked cool, which is probably the solitary idea behind this project.