Venom: The Last Dance (2024)
3/10
Starring
Tom
Hardy
Chiwetel
Ejiofor
Juno
Temple
Rhys
Ifans
Directed
by Kelly Marcel
There
is something about the CGI, which is used in these Venom movies, that just doesn’t
sit well with me. It is so big and when Eddie is in Venom mode, that it just
feels out of place, but maybe that is just me, and it does not matter to the
grand scheme of things when it comes to the fans of the franchise. This movie
is not as amazing an addition to the whole spider-verse as you would want it. I
was not moved or intrigued by what was happening and the idea of making the ending
be so emotional, did not work. It just looked like the same old superhero movie
move, where the end is never really the end for any character.
Venom: The Last Dance is “supposed” to be the last of
the Venom trilogy by Sony, supposed in quote because nothing ends any more. Like
the previous movies before it, Venom (2018)
and Venom:
Let There Be Carnage (2021) it follows the story of Eddie Brock (Tom
Hardy) and his symbiote Venom on their adventures. This time we are starting in
a bar in Mexico, where Eddie is on the run for the death of Patrick Mulligan. We
know, from the last movie, that Mulligan’s situation and absence has nothing to
do with Eddie or Venom.
We are then
introduced to a new being Knull, who according to the symbiote has been around
before the creation of the universe. He has risen because Venom brought Eddie
back to life at one point creating something called a codex. This codex is what
alerted Knull, because with the codex, he can break free from the prison which
the symbiotes have placed it. So, he sends these creatures called Xenophages to
go find this codex.
Now there are a
lot of holes in this story, that I do not want to dive into, because I don’t
care that much. Now in Area-51 Strickland and his team have been going about
collecting all the symbiotes they can find and any left trace about. We meet Dr.
Teddy Payne, who has been working on these symbiotes to find out why they are
here and their intentions. It was from all these they learn that Knull has
woken up, and that the only way to stop him is to kill either Venom or Eddie.
Here is where
movies lose me, in other to save Venom, the amount of people who died are
amazing. Also, the amount of symbiotes who gave their lives, in a situation,
which in the end was not stopped. So, to me all those deaths was wasted.
I know Sony will
be holding on to the spider-verse for a long time, so that is why we will
continue to see such nonsense being released time and time again.
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