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In the grand scheme of all films, including, for example, the exquisite silent film of F. W. Murnau, 1927 Sunrise and 2015 totally useless entourage movie: The demarcation line between a super-awesome Marvel movie and a bad movie is as thin as cellophane. Venom, Marvel's latest entry – that is, the latest movie based on Marvel material – is neither the most awesome Marvel movie, nor the worst. It exists in the width of this micro-millimeter. Venom has energy, style and Tom Hardy – all good things. But that does not really make sense, a bad thing. That will bring money back to the box office and people will probably talk about it for a week, maybe two. It's as it should be: Spending more energy would be excessive.
You could do worse, though, than spend an hour or two with Hardy as an investigative reporter Eddie Brock and later as a human host of an extraterrestrial being called Venom. Hardy's Brock is an attractive and insightful television reporter who investigates homelessness, burning dumps and other injustices. He is an ordinary guy who wears hoodies and many braided bracelets. He has a beautiful and elegant girlfriend lawyer, Anne (Michelle Williams). But Brock loses his job when he plunges a bit too much into the workings of the Life Foundation, a bioengineering company led by Carlton Drake (Rice Ahmed), an affable genius who uses to import "symbiotes" "From space, life forms hope to blend with human beings for God knows what reason. Anne is involved in Brock's journalistic schemes and loses her job. The two separate. Brock falls apart.
But things go wrong for Brock when his already pretty body is overtaken by Venom, a crabby but somewhat principled symbiote who makes his desires known in an underground groan. (Hardy also provides Venom's voice.) Sometimes Venom is inside Brock, but you can not see him – you only hear him giving orders or making spiritual statements: "Hungry! "On my planet, I am a loser just like you. ! And sometimes, Venom fully inhabits Brock, turning him into an imposing man, with glistening obsidian skin and elongated eyes the color of egg whites. His permanent smile consists of several rows of very sharp teeth; From time to time, a long, slippery tongue passes through. Venom is not really bad; it looks more like the identity card that comes alive. And he half loves, half-pitying his new host Brock, so he's happy to help him do things – like getting his girlfriend back.
If or when you see Venom, you will witness a messy and uninteresting battle between Venom and another more malicious symbiote. There is also a car chase and neglected motorcycle, photographed and mounted, with vehicles driving both fast and illogical. It's supposed to be exciting but it's not. There are some interesting special effects: symbionts looking for hosts housed in glass-walled medical type containers are glittering blue-gray spots resembling an impious alliance of slimy molds and toys where you use a magnet to move the iron-behaviors to create hair on the face of a bald gentleman. They are pretty cool to watch. You will have to ignore the fact that sometimes symbionts kill their hosts, sometimes they only use them temporarily, then jump, and sometimes they come in and stay for good. There is no rhyme or reason.
It should also be noted that Venom is not strictly part of the Marvel film universe, but rather of an MCU offshoot produced by Sony. So, if it tells you something, that's it. It should also be emphasized that VenomThe director, Ruben Fleischer, has already made better films: his debut was 2009 Zombieland, with Woody Harrelson, Jesse Eisenberg and Emma Stone, before she's a superstar.
But Venom at least has a sense of humor about himself. And although the generally wonderful Michelle Williams has little to do (and the wonderful Jenny Slate also appears in a much smaller role, with almost nothing Hardy, with his sensitive Everydude mug, is fun to watch. Brock travels the city in which the story takes place, San Francisco, arguing with his inner demon, Venom, about what they should eat next (humans or Tater Tots?) Or on what? they should do exactly that against the disturbing Drake. On the Marvel Scale of magnitude, with 1 being the least pleasant and 10 the most amazing, Venom could be around 3.5, 4 if you are really in a good mood. Which means that it might not be as bad as entourage. But it's far from Sunrise.
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