This is coming from someone who was very optimistic about "Venom" when more or less everyone wasn't but when I went to see the film I was very underwhelmed, but it was not all bad I will start with the good and move into tremendously large bad section.

The Good: Tom Hardy acts well considering the crappy script he was given, the visual effects were good and Venom looks like he is susposed to (apart form the white spider symbol).

The Bad: The script is trash, even when you put aside the fact that they ignore all pervious incarnations of the character its just plain and simply horrifically written. As I mentioned in my headline it is extremely formulaic and it doesn't try to be anything more than "Popcorn Flick". I won't go into to much detail but several scenes that take place in the movie actually don't make any sense stuff happens that either has no relevance to the plot or Is not explained ala "The Amazing Spider-Man 2", there is also a scene in which they try to convae serious emotion and it falls flat on it's face.

Conclusion: The worst part is I thought in line with "Sony's" pervious escapades it would be box office genocide, but in fact it has sorred especially in China, I just hope that the inevitable "Venom 2" is better 5/10