Venom Review

VENOM REVIEW

SCORE - 6.5/10

Even when it had good comedy and action sequences and great acting from the cast, ‘Venom’ falls into the endless pit of mediocre films thanks to its poorly paced script and cliched story. Even the short runtime was responsible for the failure as it denied the characters from any sort of proper development.

Though the movie took the wrong route in a lot of areas it did do Venom right. The symbiote from outer-space who has been a well-known nemesis of ‘Spider-Man’ was interpreted as a straight out evil character with zero emotions in Sam Raimi’s third Spider-Man film and was portrayed the same way in many of the animated adaptations of the character. But ‘Venom’ took a different route as opposed to its predecessors and that was being honest to the comics. Venom was not as funny as he was in this movie but it did manage to show the inner struggle of Venom and its host – Eddie Brock which instantly makes both of them likable.

The major mistake and disappointment was Riot, the villain of the story who suffered from the same problem every other character suffered from – insufficient screen time. He was portrayed as another generic villain with a lame, ‘Conquering the world’ evil motivation. Even the ‘Life Foundation’ and it’s head Carlton Drake who was constantly mentioned to have a strong and powerful influence was only mentioned to have it and was never really shown properly when it had the chance to.

The only other thing left to say is to wait for the mid-credit scene as it sets up a potential sequel.