Kelly Marcel directs Tom Hardy, Juno Temple and Rhys Ifans in this superhero adventure where Eddie and his brain eating symbiote face their greatest foe.

You might have noticed I’m watching less and less comic book movies over the past two years. It is proving harder to get much appetite for sequels to films that I only half heartedly enjoyed and soft reboots with no name recasting. The Venom series, while never stellar, always delivered one thing. Tom Hardy in Jekyll & Hyde dual roles untethered from any sense of reality. And this has that in spades. Yes… the story and the sets feel very Nineties B-Movie. Yes, the credited cast is distractingly British. And, yes, the final section is as meh as most recent superhero flicks. Transparent carnage. But I had fast food fun, as I always do with this quirky horror-tinged comedy branch off. As IP sluice goes I have an affection for these ones that might stand the test of time. Chuckle, chuckle, chuckle.

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Perfect Double Bill: Venom: Let There Be Carnage (2021)

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