"Venom": Tom Hardy clearly thinks that he's in a comedy

And what if the main actor of a movie thought that he was in a crazy comedy and that everyone thought that he was in an austere thriller?

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While Tom Hardy is no stranger to superheroes, he is also a decidedly provocative movie star. He has made a name for himself in many impressive independent films, in supporting roles in big budget blockbusters, etc., but his lead role in Marvel and the new Columbia film Venom is something completely different. Hardy tends to be quirky in the movies in which he plays, so in some ways, the weird strangeness Venom It's not a surprise. What is amazing, is how much Hardy is disappointed with the rest of the film, which does not seem to want to aim as high and as big as him.

In VenomHardy is played by Eddie Brock, a crusading journalist in San Francisco who made a name for himself in a show that would feel right at home on the Vice network. But billionaire scientist Carlton Drake (Rice Ahmed), billionaire scientist Carl, and fiancé Anne Weying (Michelle Williams) lose their jobs. With the help of one of Drake's subordinates, Brock is pursuing an additional secret investigation. In doing so, he is inadvertently infected by an extraterrestrial symbiont named Venom, who turns him into a monstrous creature with tremendous super powers of strength, speed and more.

Here is a movie that answers the question: "And if the main actor thought that he was in a crazy comedy and that everyone thought that he was in a dull thriller?" Many elements of this film, drawn from the brilliant but selfish and evil villain to the fiancee with sweet but bland heart (here played by a lost Williams) to CGI overloaded action sequences, feel as if they could have been dusted off from a superhero movie from the beginnings of making modern superheroes. At the time, in movies such as Daredevil and the execrable Catwomanit was less as if the people involved in the production of the final product were as much interested in the onscreen heroes. The cynical and calculated feeling of collecting some disparate items in the hope of making enough money is very present in most countries. Venom.

That is to say except in the performances of Hardy. It's not as bold as what Hardy did like Bane in The black knight gets upbut he has the opportunity to play two very strange characters in a body and does not want to rest on his laurels. When we meet Eddie for the first time, he is mostly lonely while he is about to marry the pretty Anne Weying. His perverse sense of journalism is as much put forward as anything else – we know that Eddie is a journalist, because he's always in front of the camera and reads in his notebook – and he loses that job, he becomes even more weird. Eddie becomes more and more sweaty and turns into Venom. The bass voice symbiote is literally and figuratively embarrassing to the point that Eddie soon plunges into a lobster tank in a posh restaurant so he can eat one or two live.

The film around Hardy, however, does not know how to follow his manic and wired energy. The three screenwriters credited and director Ruben Fleischer are not able to make Drake a real threat. they seem to have more penchant for the idea that they conceived Drake as a fictitious corollary to a certain billionaire who has just been accused of fraud by the SEC that they do not give him any no feeling of being uncomfortable. The story of tortured love between Eddie and Anne is not going anywhere, in part because they only have a relative joy scene together, and partly because Williams seems too aware that she has almost nothing to do in this story. The only interesting aspect of their subplot is the other man in the screenplay, a friendly doctor played by Reid Scott, who seems perfectly happy as Anne's new boyfriend. Instead of wanting to make him an obvious villain, making him a normal and friendly guy only amplifies how odd Eddie is.

That is actually the problem and the best part of Venom. Hardy was probably stranger in the movies than he was as a director of this film. Bane remains one of the most stupid villains (intentionally or unintentionally) in modern superhero sagas, largely because of the lilting and looping vocal inflections that Hardy brought to the role. But he feels extremely strange in this film precisely because nobody does it. Everyone in this movie reads things in the book, performing on the screen at work behind the camera. The harder Hardy gets, the more boring the movie gets around him.