Okay, some
sloppy writing and plenty of killings are the traits of this Venom movie,
and I have to say it was fun to watch.
The movie didn’t
have the Disney/Marvel magic, but Sony has found another goldmine, and the
end-credits scene introducing Carnage was awesome. Sony has decided to turn
this into a franchise, with many more Venom movies to come.
Our Eddie Brock
is played by Tom Hardy, and he’s well-suited for the role. For me, he was the
best thing the movie had to offer, and it was fun seeing the way he and Venom
merged and took on the world.
You might not be
a fan of the movie’s frequent changes in pace—one moment we’re in a high-speed
chase, the next there’s a long monologue. Then we’re climbing skyscrapers, only
to leave a note and move on. Aside from the inconsistency in tone and the fact
that no one else really matches up to Tom Hardy’s performance, this was a fun
movie.
Marvel might
have to wait a long time before they can get their hands on the Spider-Man
franchise again. As we all know, Sony has a huge well of characters in this
franchise that they can spin off into their own stories.
The movie starts
with an intro into Eddie Brock’s life. He’s an investigative journalist who
goes after bad guys and doesn’t seem to care how he gets things done. Brock is
given a case to cover a man named Carlton Drake. To the world, Carlton is a
good person trying to make the world a better place, but as we soon see, the
opposite is true. Carlton has a moral problem—he’s focused on results, and it
doesn’t matter to him who gets hurt in the process.
Carlton is the
one who brought the symbiotes to Earth, and he’s been testing them on humans,
hoping to find a suitable host. Things get dark very quickly, and one of the
research scientists reaches out to Eddie to investigate. Eddie breaks into the
facility and, while searching around, sees a homeless woman he recognizes. He
breaks her out, but she attacks him, transfers her symbiote into him, and then
dies.
That symbiote is
Venom. Eddie and Venom begin a relationship that doesn’t go well at first.
Venom, like the other symbiotes, initially plans to turn Earth into a feeding
ground, but he later changes his mind (yeah, the mind-changing was a bit
silly), and he and Eddie decide to work together to bring down Carlton.
The movie has
been a huge financial success for Sony, and we can rest assured more movies
will follow.
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