Venom's first standalone movie turns out to be like the comics character in all the wrong ways You haven't finished your review yet, want to submit as-is? You can always edit your review after. TV investigative journalist Eddie Brock (Tom Hardy) is working on an exposé of scientist Carlton Drake (Riz Ahmed), who is using San Francisco's homeless as guinea.

Or is it another flop from Sony? In the first entry in the Sony Universe of Marvel Characters, Tom Hardy merges with a squirmy alien parasite to become a monster superhero. But it's even squirmier to see him.

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Venom Review: Tom Hardy's Superhero Movie is a Weirdly Fun Monster. Venom is certainly a flawed superhero movie, but Tom Hardy's performances as Eddie Brock and Venom make for a fun. Venom needed a harder edge, to be bold, and embrace the savagery of the symbiote. Venom, left, terrorizes a customer in the Marvel supervillain movie 'Venom.' In the first scene of Marvel's utterly unmarvelous Venom, an alien space ship crashes and burns on earth leaving behind. - Film review: A Star is Born - Film review: Vox Lux - Film review: The Favourite. Venom is obviously the victim of some brutal editing, and the derivative, sketchily plotted B-movie that's left is as. Hardy gives one of the all-time great crazy performances as Venom.

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Too bad the rest of the movie can't I would be shocked if Venom is a hit. The character is too niche, and the film about him is too. Venom kicks off a new Marvel film series for Sony Pictures.

Tom Hardy leads as Eddie Brock, a Bear with me here; Venom the movie is an actual "turd in the wind." Chop off its legs thanks to a weak first. Venom Is a Bad Movie With Great Cult-Movie Potential. Ultimately, it fails because it doesn't know which one it wants to be. Tom Hardy's Venom should come with an antidote: EW review. this link is to an external site that may or may not meet accessibility guidelines.