Review of Venom (2018) by Richard S — 05 Oct 2018

Venom was one of this year's comic book movies that I was most looking forward to but it all turned out very average. It had a very slow start which is fair enough, we need time to set up a back story but I felt no connection to this incarnation of Eddie Brock and so I was already losing interest after half an hour.

Once Venom appears I have to say the film did get better, it was funny in places, action packed and I was interested to see where the character was going to develop. Even so, as the film drew to a close I asked myself whether it's one I would go back to and the answer is no.

I also felt this was a strange role for Michelle Williams who is a very decent actress and was very much wasted here. The biggest letdown however, wasn't in the main body of the film it was the extra scene slotted in mid a credit sequence that was meant to appeal to the fan boys and tease a sequel.

The appearance of this character would be awesome but the complete wrong choice of actor and what was with the last minute red curly wig they had obviously picked up for him from a charity shop 2 mins before shooting.

He looked ridiculous. Hand Venom over to Marvel before the red curly wig makes it into a sequel.