When the trailers were coming out for Venom I couldn't help but be excited, I wanted to see this film be its own thing like dead-pool did but with Venom as the lethal protector.

This film has aspects that have a lot of potential such as the back and forth between Eddie and Venom, however we don't get much of that in favour of the film giving us more of Eddie and his love interest. Which is a shame as Venom and Eddie have a interesting dynamic in the comics, but in here we have Venom used more for comedy relief in the film than anything else, skipping over most of the character development.

The story itself has no pacing issues but its just so dull and a ton of scenes just feel so pointless to the story leaving it feeling like filler.

What was a big disappointment however were the action scenes, the venom tentacles that you see in the trailer just look very cheesy and weird. Venom only has a couple of fight scenes which are just OK which is a shame when you have a power house like venom in your film, plus they take place at night which makes it very hard to see as Venom is basically fully black.

Tom Hardy was good.