Venom: Let There Be Carnage (2021)

Venom: Let There Be Carnage (2021)

 

6/10

Starring

Tom Hardy

Michelle Williams

Naomie Harris

Reid Scott

Stephen Graham

Woody Harrelson

 

 

Directed by Andy Serkis

 

 

Succinct and straight to the point, Venom 2 doesn’t waste any time messing around—just straight-to-the-point delivery on comedy and action.

The movie takes on a sort of superhero buddy-cop vibe, with Venom being the loose cannon. If you liked the first Venom movie, you’ll like this one too. The focus here is more on the comedic side, with Tom Hardy having so much fun playing the character that it practically oozes off the screen. Venom 2 has a PG rating, so don’t expect anything remotely close to what you’d see in a Deadpool movie.

The break in communication between the characters is fun to watch, as both fight for individualism within the same body. Venom is majorly upset about being downgraded from eating brains to munching on chickens and chocolate, while Eddie (Hardy) struggles to keep his life together as Venom continues to make a mess of things. The whole Venom and Eddie being a perfect host and symbiote combination takes a backseat a little, with Venom jumping around after he and Eddie have a breakup.

What led to this is a string of bad choices that started when Eddie interviewed Cletus Kasady (Woody Harrelson). Venom, after seeing Kasady’s cell and listening to Eddie’s conversation, deduces where the psychotic serial killer (Kasady) buried the bodies of his victims.

In a final interview before Kasady receives the lethal injection, Kasady bites Eddie and gets a bit of Venom in him. From here, the symbiote Carnage is born—an offspring of Venom living inside Kasady as his host.

Carnage is a red symbiote, and from the get-go, it’s clear he’s more powerful than Venom, the black symbiote. Kasady uses his new powers to free his lady, Shriek, and together, the trio decides to get revenge on everyone they believe has hurt or hindered them in some way.

The movie uses CG effects to the max to showcase most of what you see on screen, but it doesn’t overdo it. One thing about the movie that I didn’t feel worked was the final battle between Venom and Carnage—it seemed to drag on for way too long.

With the way this Spider-verse is growing and making massive millions for Sony, I don’t think Disney has any chance of getting Spider-Man (and his friends and villains) back into the MCU.

I really enjoyed the movie and believe you will too if you’re a fan.