Fool me once Sony shame on you. Fool me twice shame on you AGAIN! No no I actually wasn't excited for this movie at all. I thought Venom himself looked good in the trailers, but never did I think "oh wow I think this movie will be good!" I went into it thinking without Marvel, Sony can't make a Spider-Man movie to save their life. And yup, I was proven right. Here's the thing, I'm reviewing this movie in two different ways. The first as a movie, and then second, a comedy. I kid you not I had a really fun time watching Venom. It's such a fascinating movie to talk about. It's so bad I was practically crying from laughing so much. I probably ruined it for a lot of people in the theater but I couldn't help it.

As a movie it does not work at all, it feels so dated. If you remember watching movies like Ben Affleck in Daredevil or Ang Lee's Hulk, it feels exactly like that. Cheesy editing complete with comic panel shots, nonsensical plot and pretty much no character development whatsoever. Tom Hardy is AWFUL as Eddie Brock. I don't know if he actually thinks that's how Americans act but he's just a bumbling buffoon who hunches over almost all the time. None of the supporting cast is given anything to do either. The bad guy is an Elon Musk looking stock character evil business man 101 who gets another Symbiote to just have a big Symbiote fight with Venom at the end. (This fight looks worse than Bay's Transformers movies I couldn't tell what was even happening I'm not kidding). Michelle Williams is here I think for the money? She had no chemistry with Tom Hardy either I did not believe they were engaged. Venom as a character is great but has practically one of the worst arcs I've ever seen in a superhero film.

If you're hoping to get a really dark, gritty, edgy monster movie with Venom you can just throw all that out the window because that's what Sony basically did. However, if you want to see a really bad comedy that has some shining scenes with Eddie and Venom then I say you should absolutely watch Venom. Whenever they're on screen together I actually enjoyed it, they gave his character funny dialogue that kept me engaged and made me wish this Venom would interact with Tom Holland's Spidey soon. It seriously would've benefited the movie if they just had Tom Holland show up and make it a buddy road trip type film where they have to work together to achieve a goal. Aside from Eddie and Venom's relationship I couldn't salvage anything good. "Venom" is incoherent, poorly written, stupidly acted, it's a movie that falls flat on its face and you'll either think it's terrible or just comedy galore. As a movie: 3/10. As a comedy: 10/10 BABY!!🎊🎉 Venom said it best, "Like a turd, in the wind!"