A film that seems to have been written in the 90's, desperate to keep a lower budget, a PG13, and a wide audience so it doesn't bother being a good horror, a good antihero movie, or a good sci-fi. It sort of manages to be a passable buddy movie but only just, and probably due to a bonkers Tom Hardy who is clearly having the time of his life. There's so much in the idea to have unlimited potential, and yet it's a hole-ridden, lily-white superhero film with only marginally more actual Venom than Raimi's Spider-Man 3, and all the beats of a run of a mill early superhero film. Unfortunately since Deadpool, a Venom movie would have to have upped its game. Sometimes it's fun, most of the while, it's depressingly by the numbers.