Directed by:
Andy SerkisScreenplay:
Kelly MarcelCinematography:
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Marco BeltramiCast:
Tom Hardy, Michelle Williams, Woody Harrelson, Naomie Harris, Stephen Graham, Reid Scott, Sean Delaney, Laurence Spellman, Etienne Vick, Amber Sienna, Peggy Lu (more)VOD (3)
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Tom Hardy returns to the big screen as the lethal protector Venom, one of Marvel’s greatest and most complex characters. Directed by Andy Serkis, Screenplay by Kelly Marcel with the Story by Tom Hardy & Kelly Marcel, the film also stars Michelle Williams, Naomie Harris and Woody Harrelson, in the role of the villain Cletus Kasady/Carnage. (Sony Pictures Home Entertainment)
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The second Venom is more about digital monsters than about Hardy. Furthermore, they are two digimonsters that would look the same in a black-and-white movie. On the other hand, Venom “on his own two feet” is fun and his attendance of a party is one of the film’s best moments. The bad guys don’t arouse much fear, as their motivation is shoddy and their interactions with those around them come off as frivolous, like other things in the movie. In the final dark, overwrought digifest, I really didn’t give a damn who was throwing whom where or who was falling where or what was falling on them. Otherwise, Hardy on a motorcycle is great, and Michelle Williams... Michelle Williams! She gives the movie a much needed aesthetic element. If it wasn’t for her, I'd give Let There Be Carnage two stars.
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Venom as a pro-migrant agitator and declared bisexual is the surprising revelation of this sequel. Nevertheless, Let There Be Carnage is a tiny bit better than part one. It passes by nicely and is funny in its silly way and its running time is short. As if Serkis simply cut the boring and unfunny bits out. Some of the twists and revelations appear very farfetched and all-of-a-sudden. Stress is on the marital quarrels of the continuously weirdly acting Hardy along with Venom, and all the other things surrounding this just happen to happen, god knows how. It lacks any logic. And it would just be a waste of time to go into analysis of degradation when compared to the source material. P.S.: Harrelson spends his time strangely overacting; this role is acutely uncomfortable for him.
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If I were to write that the Venom 2 was as uninteresting and unimaginative as the first one, I'd be bullshitting, because I don't remember anything from the first. But it's certainly uninteresting and uninspired. Tom Hardy's cool, so is Woody Harrelson. Michelle Williams and Naomie Harris are solid actresses, but they're given little space. In fact, everything has a little space. Venom isn't even a hundred minutes long, and unfortunately a good third of the running time is taken up by weird sitcom outtakes about Eddie Brock and Venom's cohabitation, where the film tries to pretend it's a variation on The Odd Couple, only with an alien. Occasionally, the film remembers that it has a serial killer and his symbiotic friend in there, so it skips to a random action scene and try to pretend to be horror. For an hour, nothing interesting actually happens except for Venom and Brock's arguments mixed with Harrelson's overacting (you can’t play a deranged serial killer in such a small space in any other way), only to end with a final clash with a lot of pretty solid visual effects and an unexpectedly solid length. And then the end. I won't remember any of it in a week. Again.
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A bit better than last time, mainly thanks to great villains. Woody Harrelson and Naomie Harris are like Bonnie and Clyde, only crazier, their escape is one of the best comic book movie scenes in recent memory in my opinion, and while I often grumble about unnecessarily long movies, this time a few extra dozen minutes would have been easily tolerable, if it had been devoted mostly to them. Otherwise, Andy Serkis didn't bring anything new to the director's chair, but he did a good job. Marco Beltrami composed unfortunately similarly bland music as Ludwig Göransson before him, and Tom Hardy, the good actor, once again seemed to forget that he can act, and once again he goofs off (although, admittedly, a little less than four years ago).
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I was a bit apprehensive about this sequel, mostly worried it would follow the same formula as the first one — and it did, almost exactly. Once again, the whole movie revolves around Tom Hardy. Venom still leaves me unsure whether I’m supposed to root for him or not, and Woody Harrelson’s villainous role feels completely unnecessary. With the first film, at least I got a few laughs, but even the humor feels lacking this time around. And don’t get me started on the overly artificial CGI. It’s like a budget version of the Marvel universe, and it shows.
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