"We are Venom" - Eddie/Venom Skip It (D+) *new grade*

Not as completely irredeemable from positives on this rewatch which it has a fun but crazy over-the-top performance by Tom Hardy as well as some good acting from Michelle Williams, Scott Haze and the rest of the cast. The score by Ludwig Gorannsson is still fun to listen to and the banter between Eddie and Venom is still fun. I still like the action sequences and cinematography here too. But my biggest praise is Venom's look and it is a major improvement over his look in Spider-Man 3

But between those positives, this movie still has the big issues that keeps this from being a great stand-alone Venom movie such as the inconsistency in the editing at times especially in the action sequences (which are still fun but problem is, some of them are not cut right) and most of the movie at times and the editing is pretty bad at times. The script by Kelly Marcel (and the 2 writers of Jumanji: Welcome to the Jungle & The Next Level) is really terrible and this movie suffers from Sony's usual studio meddling as well as no mention of the web singer, Spider-Man himself which was and still is desperately needed. Riot is a very disappointing villain with no clear motivation despite Riz Ahmed's best efforts but his performance is incredibly over-the-top. Not to mention there's some bad CGI here in places

But of all of the problems this movie has, it's biggest and major problem is it's PG-13 rating really hurting the film's full potential and desperately needing for a hard R and the extra 40 minutes that was cut.

Not the worst movie ever but still one of my least favorite superhero movies ever and one of the worst of last decade but it does have enough merit to boost the grade up. 4.5/10 (D+)