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Venom: The Last Dance (2024)
★1/2
“Well… it’s better than Madame Web” is about the highest compliment I can give Venom: The Last Dance.
Why do I keep doing this to myself? Why do I hate myself enough to keep putting myself through these god-awful Sony Marvel movies that I know are going to be terrible? Venom 3 is horrid. I didn’t like the first two all that much… but this is just so much worse. Why do they keep making these? The only thing that works is the casting of Tom Hardy as Eddie Brock, and yet here all he does is stumble around in various pairs of shoes.
This movie made me angry. It feels as if it was made by people who have never opened a comic book in their lives, who have never watched a comic book movie at all. They clearly don’t know what makes these stories/characters work as here it just feels like they are jangling keys at the audience with various CGI action scenes or dumb attempts at comedy every 2 minutes, leaving no room for character, stakes, emotion, or story really. Don’t even get me started on the pointless hippie family or the dance scene with Mrs. Chen. Venom himself barely had any screen time! I just don’t know what was happening here. And I was bored to the point of nearly falling asleep too… It’s just such poor filmmaking that it's not even entertaining. Genuinely, what an embarrassment of a film.
Truly praying this is the last of these.
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Premise: Eddie and Venom, on the run, face pursuit from both worlds. As circumstances tighten, they're compelled to make a heart-wrenching choice that could mark the end of their symbiotic partnership.
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Sony - Columbia Pictures
Directed by Kelly Marcel
Screenplay by Kelly Marcel
Story by Kelly Marcel & Tom Hardy
Cast: Tom Hardy, Chiwetel Ejiofor, Juno Temple, Rhys Ifans, Stephen Graham, Peggy Lu, Andy Serkis
Runtime: 1hr 50min
Rating: PG
Action, Adventure, Sci-Fi
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IMDb Rating: 6.2/10
Rotten Tomatoes Score: 41%
RT Audience Score: 81%
RT Critic Average: 4.8/10
RT Audience Average: 4.2/5
Metacritic Score: 41
CinemaScore: B-
Letterboxd: 2.6/5
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Fun Fact: All of the main cast members, Tom Hardy (Eddie/Venom), Juno Temple (Dr. Paine), Chiwetel Ejiofor (Strickland), Rhys Ifans (Martin) and Stephen Graham (Mulligan) are British, but they are all playing Americans in this film.
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