Rotten Tomatoes: https://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/venom_2018/
Venom's first standalone movie turns out to be like the comics character in all the wrong ways - chaotic, noisy, and in desperate need of a stronger attachment to Spider-Man (currently 26%)
Metacritic: https://www.metacritic.com/movie/venom-2018
Venom's first standalone movie turns out to be like the comics character in all the wrong ways - chaotic, noisy, and in desperate need of a stronger attachment to Spider-Man (currently 26%)
Metacritic: https://www.metacritic.com/movie/venom-2018
https://variety.com/2018/film/reviews/venom-review-tom-hardy-michelle-williams-1202965030/In "Venom," the spectacular but mostly derivative and generically plotted new comic-book origin story (it's the first installment of the Sony Universe of Marvel Characters), Tom Hardy is afflicted with an otherworldly force that invades his mind, his body, his very being. It's called the desire to act like a stumblebum Method goof. The symptoms, which are highly visible and dramatic, range from a propensity for bug-eyed staring to a tendency to swallow each line with a kind of renegade doofus mumble, in a way that leaves Hardy sounding like a cross between early Marlon Brando and late Adam Sandler.
https://mashable.com/article/venom-movie-review/#wJlyCBfVEgq8A movie that initially seemed just-plain-bad becomes so-bad-it's-good. Or maybe it's just plain good. It's been a full day since I've seen it, and honestly, I'm still not sure. Either way, I laughed a lot.
https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/review/venom-review-1148836The pervasive lack imagination of this film under the auspices of director Ruben Fleischer, in his first feature outing since the dreadful Gangster Squad in 2013, makes one appreciate the thought and care that Marvel has lavished not only on the likes of Black Panther and Captain America but even on more minor-league entries such as the amusing Ant-Man titles. Everything here seems by-the-book, without amusement or surprise, save for Stan Lee's more extensive-than-usual last-minute cameo.
https://www.theverge.com/2018/10/2/17929154/venom-movie-review-tom-hardy-marvelThe film is utterly dissonant, recalling the weird camp of Batman & Robin, which illustrates a fundamental conflict between the presentation of what the Venom symbiote is and does and the filmmakers' efforts to turn his story into a Deadpool-esque laugh riot.
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