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exciting - Venom review by WW

usual outcome of an infecting agent but the out of the ordinary result, exciting twists, hopey do a sequel

Venom ? hmm..... - Venom review by porky

I like Tom Hardy ,Ive worked with him n Movies and he is a Nice Guy but in my opinion he isn't a good actor ,especially when made to pretend to be American . Why do they always do it, Cast a Brit then pretend they are American ? it is just a bit embarrassing as the accent changes all through the movie .

Venom is a pretty Dull Character . it can pretty much Do Anything ,fix anyone and Not Die so there is not a lot to fear ,nothing gets in its way and therefore it becomes tedious to watch because there is little to get excited about .

All the action is CGI which for me also made it unwatchable .

anything that can be made by Computer Generated Cartoon is just not Exciting or Clever so therefore looses my interest because once again Anything is possible so the Fear factor and excitement about how it will end is negated . . kind of Who Cares .

filled an afternoon lazily but was mostly dull. repetitive and corny.

Good film - Venom review by CP Customer

This is not your usual marvel extravaganza but I loved it. A creative and funny movie. I agree with another reviewer and would like a sequel.

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Venom is an atrocious film in all technical aspects. It’s nothing original, it’s been cut to bits, the writing is laughable and it just doesn’t work. With that said, it’s definitely a lot of fun. Also, the villain is - yet again - a bigger, greyer version of the hero.

An interesting jumble of a film, saved completely by Hardy, which isn't as bad as some people say - Venom review by TB

When Venom appeared in Spider-Man 3, it was almost universally accepted that of the 3 villains featured, he came off the worst. Although to be fair, no-one came out of that film unscathed, which was made worse by how incredible Spider-Man 2 was.

After a concerted effort over many years to bring Venom to the big screen in his own film, we finally got both a decent actor playing him and a hefty budget to match. However, Venom is a very strange movie. When you look at it purely as a film, it isn't that good. The performances & script are so scattershot in terms of their quality (Riz Ahmed literally stands in the shots & says his lines whilst trying to be intimidating, but wouldn't scare a toddler; Michelle Williams, whose ability to break your heart & touch your soul in films like Manchester By The Sea & Brokeback Mountain, is given a role so bland/badly written, you start to wonder if she's only there for the cheque,) that you would reasonably expect the film to fail. There is also terrible CGI/special effects and several uninspired directing/production decisions such as a bland soundtrack.

However, having said all of that, Venom also has a real ace up its sleeve which saves it from 1 star ignominy, at least in my review... it it totally off-the-wall, batsh*t crackers. And it did leave me with a smile on my face. Tom Hardy's physical comedy, for example, is actually really well played. Venom is portrayed in many ways as the relative from hell, except in this case, instead of minor petulant acts like stealing money or property, he eats people & destroys everything in his path. The arguments between Eddie Brock & Venom are also quite funny as well.

The other positive that this film has, which helps it in no uncertain terms, is it's length. Rather than making it a long, drawn-out origin story which tries to set up a million different elements in preparation for the sequels, this film is just a shade over 90 minutes. And it really zipped along for me, managing to be deceptively light-weight in terms of it's tone and silliness.

Also, despite its 15 rating, it was a real struggle to work out why this film had been given this. Despite the potential for it to be graphically violent, for me it was never more than a strong 12A film, despite a couple of moments of threat.

Whilst there was a lot more it could have done well, this is a solid 3 star film which, if you don't take it too seriously, you can have a laugh at. And amusingly enough, despite a change of director, the sequel is almost a carbon copy of this one in terms of its story and how it is shot, although it does have a great villain played by Woody Harrelson.

Awful - Venom review by TA

The Worst marvel film I've ever seen and the worst Tom Hardy film I've ever seen and I'm usually a fan of both.

Surprisingly entertaining - Venom review by AL

Heard reviews but not read any. Glad I didn't because I may not have seen this film and that would have been a shame. I thought this was Great, really didn't know what to expect, but this is very entertaining, original and a different type of marvel film. Glad it's part of Sony and not Disney's marvel universe, so it can be apart from that arch. It's not as good as Logan (but what is), but it surprised me, like Logan did. Tom hardy was excellent, other cast were fine as well, not great but fine. Looking forward to the next one.