Review of Venom (2018) by Ajzeg01 — 21 Sep 2019

This movie is bad! It’s not well-written, it’s not technically well-made, and it is stupid! However, I actually enjoyed it a little. Most of this movie I found to be slow and kinda dull. It takes a while to get going, but when it does, I started having fun.

This movie is at its best when it is being crazy and over-the-top! However, there isn’t a lot of that in the movie. That only really happens in the middle of the movie. It takes a long time to get going, it goes for a little bit, and then it just kinda ends abruptly before it even really begins.

It’s very poorly paced, probably because of the re-edits. I thought there must’ve been more to this movie, I was only 90 minutes into what’s supposed to be a 110-minute movie, but nope! That was it! There are, no joke, 20 minutes of credits! That’s including two post-credits scenes, but you can just turn the movie off after the first one.

The second is just a clip from Into the Spider-verse, nothing special. I heard there were about 40 minutes of footage cut from the final film, and yeah. It shows. Overall, this movie is a hot mess. If you’re in the mood for garbage, give it a watch.

It’s like one of those less-than-wonderful 70s and 80s B horror movies. If you like that sort of thing, you’ll like this. If you want an actually good movie with a similar premise, however, watch Upgrade instead.