Review of Venom (2018) by Manny R — 05 Oct 2018

This was way better than I thought. I'm usually on par with reviewers but every so often it seems they miss the picture. This is surely one of those. It appears that the reviewers were looking for a deep story filled with character development and subtle mix of special effects. That is not what marvel fans look for. Over the last decade, reviewers have had to eat their pens with comic book stories becoming big screen adaptations and see spotty acting mixed with simple plotlines. Oh well.

This movie does a great job of making Venom become a franchise. It explains it in more ways that it even needed to. Unlike spiderman 3, where venom just crawls up on Tobey McGuire about an hour into the movie and then all of a sudden end up on an angry Eddie Brock after the bell tolls, this movie puts it all together differently. Venom's character is complex and this movie shows that. Eddie's character is good and tormented, and it shows that. The other characters never really needed explanation. The action was intense and fun. Enjoy.