First day and the first show was all that it took for me to break my year-long expectations for Carnage but the post-credit scene makes up for it.

If I want to sum up the whole review, there it is.

As a Marvel Zombie myself, I was excited to see the face-off between Venom and Carnage ever since I played Spider-Man (2000). The mayhem and destruction that comics and all the animated series brings in for Carnage was unjustified for the film. I went to a theatre half-full (sadly, Covid times) with Marvel fans mostly everyone had a similar reaction as hootings and shouts at a typical first day Marvel launch was missing.

The movie was a long-awaited project for MCU fans, and it did fall flat on the expectations as the film lacked character arch for one of the evilest villains in Spider-Man Universe to show how Carnage became what it was, the gore and glory of the madness he brings in. Meanwhile, Venom was shown quite soft and funny what it's not supposed to be, nonetheless, it was delightful to watch Tom Hardy play the character with its twists and turns of punches it brings in. Another thing I felt missing about Carnage was the psychotic voice it always portraited, the film felt monotone flat on it.

The movie screentime was typically very short for what you expect a superhero-comic movie to be and could have gone easily longer to add more depth to it. I believe they could have made it more gore like how Deadpool and Logan are but surely the box-office mattered much more to the producers.

The only thing that got me excited to jump off my seat was the post-credit scene. Boy O Boy! It was worth it all for that moment. Excited to see what Marvel got in the bag for future projects.