Venom

It’s unfortunate that the actual Venom character feels so thin and corny.

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Ultimately, the ingratiating eccentricities of Venom aren’t enough to really distinguish the movie from its superhero-movie brethren as it devolves into the usual expensive orgy of sound, fury and wisecracking.

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This is an extremely minor entry in the Marvel universe (although it’s not technically a part of the Marvel Cinematic Universe, for those of you who care about these things), a tonally wonky lark that’s actually stronger when it’s sillier. It’s a mess, but a fun mess—at least for a while.

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It’s difficult to discuss “Venom” without some mention of the infamous feculence line shown in the trailer—the symbiotic monster warning a naughty thug about leaving his dismembered body flailing about like “a turd in the wind.” It’s a laughable line, but maybe there’s something to these recurring themes; after all, endoparasites are often found in feces, and “Venom” stinks like a horrid flush that just won’t go down the drain.

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Tom Hardy Is One Good Reason to See Venom

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Everything seems to misfire in the character’s solo movie debut

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TV investigative journalist Eddie Brock (Tom Hardy) is working on an exposé of scientist Carlton Drake (Riz Ahmed), who is using San Francisco’s homeless as guinea pigs to bond humans with aliens. Sneaking into Drake’s lab, Eddie’s body merges with symbiote Venom who gives him super-strength, a deep inner voice and a huge appetite.

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Ultimately, Venom is shorter and goofier than its superhero competition, which might be enough to set it apart for some audiences. Still, if you were hoping that it would push the boundaries of mainstream action movies and give us a split-minded superhero worth cheering for, you’d probably be better off checking out Upgrade instead. What you lose in head-biting you make up for in, well, everything else.

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In the first entry in the Sony Universe of Marvel Characters, Tom Hardy merges with a squirmy alien parasite to become a monster superhero. But it's even squirmier to see him merge with a comic-book franchise.

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Despite a commendably committed performance from Tom Hardy (whether it's a good or bad one will still need further evaluation), Venom's a big, stinking gooey mess of a film from Sony Pictures.

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Tom Hardy does his best to elevate a tonally confused script, but Venom will leave you begging for an antidote.

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The latest movie off the Marvel assembly line is a disaster on every level, from the hatchet-job writing to the horrid performances. Like so many recent superhero movies, ”Venom” has put its focus on juvenile humor instead of heart or action.

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The final act’s full-tilt embrace of action, though, undermines such flashes of actorly idiosyncrasy, reorienting the film around a climax that uses rapid cuts and dark lighting to stage a CGI-intensive fight that makes Venom resemble a bad superhero flick from the mid-aughts.

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Not even Tom Hardy can save this attempt to combine a dark super-antihero story and ‘Deadpool’-style shenanigans

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As the reporter who fuses with an alien ‘symbiote’, Hardy stumbles in a film that is nowhere near the nimble excellence of the Marvel Cinematic Universe series

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Tom Hardy channels Norman Wisdom in an utterly berserk CGI eyesore

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Ruben Fleischer's Marvel adaptation stars Tom Hardy as the titular antihero, alongside Michelle Williams, Riz Ahmed and Jenny Slate.

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Spider-Man’s legendary arch-nemesis returns to the screen in a listless dud

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