Venom Review:

Venom is Sony's new Marvel movie about one of the best antiheroes, Venom. I was excited for this movie. I love Spider-Man a lot and Venom is my favorite Spider-Man villain. Sony also just did Spider-Man: Homecoming which is one of my favorite marvel movies and actually movies of all time because it was done so well. The trailers didn't look that great but I was still hoping it would be good. The reviews came in and I got less exited. This was a huge disappointment. It was trying so hard to be great but there were so many problems. Before the long list of negative here are some positives. I liked Tom Hardy as usual. He wasn't my favorite choice for Eddie Brock but I liked him. I liked the twisted relationship with him and Venom. I really liked the after credit scenes, especially the very last one. The movie seemed to get more entertaining to watch as it went along too. That's about it. Now the negatives. Wow what a bad script. You could tell some scenes were rewritten because they just didn't seem to fit after one another in some cases. This made the pacing choppy. Speaking of pacing, the first 45 minutes were so boring. Nothing was happening. I was wondering if we were ever going to get to Venom because there was just about only one hour left. Finally Venom comes in and it get a little interesting. The CGI wasn't that good I will add. There was action scenes that were just ok. Venom is black and most of the action scenes were at night so you couldn't really tell what was going on sometimes. Also it felt weird when it ended for me. The poor writing just made it seem that the climax of the film wasn't, but I guess it was. Speaking of poor writing, and I won't spoil what it is, but if you have a good ear there is a small DC reference in it. This is a Marvel universe film where DC doesn't exist. That bugged me a lot. The tone felt off for me too. It was an action film that was trying to be like a horror movie with more funny moments in it, which I can kind of see because Venom is supposed to have a twisted sense of humor. The way it came off though didn't work. I think the movie would've also benefited from an R rating. Everything was censored when it shouldn't have been. Rated R Marvel movies like Logan and the Deadpool movies were great. Without those R ratings I think those movies wouldn't be as good. They rating really needed to be changed. Alrighty on to characters. Riz Ahmed played the antagonist, Carlton Drake, and he's a pretty good actor. I really liked him in Nightcrawler. He was horrible in this. I think it was because of his character. Drake was a scientist who doesn't care about people and just about his experiment and power. Nothing else. It reminded me of Yellow Jacket in the first Ant-Man. Michelle Williams was also in this and I didn't enjoy her character much either. Also she was barely in it. She's a very talented actress so I thought they would use her maybe a little more. I don't know what else to write about. All I can say is that I'm very disappointed. Especially with a good director, Ruben Fleischer, who director Zombieland. If you want to see it don't be too surprised if you don't like it. I knew I wasn't going to like it based on the 30% Rotten Tomatoes gave it and 35 by MetaScore. For some reason some audiences have been liking it. On IMDb it has a 7.1/10. And audience score on Rotten Tomatoes is an 89% somehow, which is higher than A Star is Born (very good movie and I will have the review posted soon). I don't know. There was a good performance, good relationship, and it kind of got better as it went along. Also good after credit scenes. Though one is setting up for a sequel which I'm happy for but they'll probably mess up like they did with this. See it if you'd like. I'd suggest A Star is Born, the better release of this past weekend.

My Grade: C-