Venom

Venom

Dir: Reuben Fleischer

Cast: Tom Hardy, Michelle Williams, Riz Ahmed, Jenny Slate

       After the way that Sony handled Venom in Spider-Man 3, most comic book 
   fans have been clamoring for Venom film ever since. Venom is based on the 
   popular Marvel anti-hero of the same name & directed by Zombieland director 
   Reuben Fleischer.

     The Plot

      Tom Hardy stars as Eddie Brock, a mild mannered journalist looking to uncover
   the truth about a shady biochemical lab known as The Life Foundation. The lab 
   experiments on humans using alien slime known as Symbiote.

     One day while sneaking into the lab for evidence, he inadvertently gets infected 
  with the alien slime that lives inside of him and transforms into the creature. Now
  the lab wants it back and hunts him down for it. 

What Did Work

    After a really clunky beginning that deal with his personal life involving his girl-

   friend Annie (Williams), there are some great action sequences. Everything after 

   Venom shows up is much better than the 15 minutes that try and set up the story.

What Didn't Work

   The beginning. I didn't know what kind of movie it wanted to be, a horror, scifi, or 

    even a rom/com? Either way it'd didn't matter. The villain of this movie was just
    forgettable. The CGI was really bad like it was rushed out for the sake of it. I
    personally found it to be really boring as well.

Overall

     This movie is neither good or bad just decent. It is an unnecessary movie made 
   by Sony just to keep the Spider-man rights with them. If Sony Pictures is starting
   their own cinematic universe, they're doing it the wrong way. This is akin to 
   Catwoman that had nothing to do with Batman. Maybe rent this one. 

Grade C-