Tuesday, 9 October 2018

Venom review






Hello again,
This is the first blog I've done for many months now so I thought I'd review a film I recently saw at the cinema. As you can tell from the title I saw Sony's latest flick Venom, if you've been on the internet lately you will know that Venom hasn't got great reviews and I think there being a bit unfair with those bad reviews. I'm not going to say that the movie is amazing because it's not but the director and everyone involved did the best they can to make the movie the best it could be and it does pay off in the final cut. Another reason is that the character of Spider-Man is quite important in the origin of Venom as he is the reason that they symbiote exists and the reason why he hates the wall-crawler alongside Eddie Brock who finds out his secret identity.

The film's story starts off with a space crash a bit like his origin in the Spider-Man animated series in the 90's. Police see that all the crew on the ship are dead and collect the packages that they came back to earth to deliver to a man named Carlton Drake (Riz Ahmed). In San Francisco, Eddie Brock (Tom Hardy) is about to interview Carlton about his illegal experiments. He gets fired from his job as a reporter and gets dumped by his girlfriend Anne (Michelle Williams) who got fired from her job as she was the holder of this information. 6 months have passed and Drake decided to experiment on the packages which he calls Symbiotes, one of his doctors tells Eddie of this and he decides to investigate further. He accidentally gets attacked and one of the symbiotes goes into his body. After adjusting to his new body he meets the symbiote inside of him who calls himself Venom (also voiced by Hardy) and together they stop Drake who gets consumed by a symbiote called Riot to get more of these symbiotes which will take over the planet.

Now for the advantages of this movie. Although this movie might be a bit of mess in parts, there was a lot of concepts that I liked in the movie. One of them was Venom himself as he his like Eddie's inner voice and can also take control of his body which is quite interesting and a bit scary when you think about it. He is also very cocky calling Eddie a loser and a bit of a wimp, however, he can be violent as he does like to bite heads off of people who attack him. The voice is impressive as well as Hardy disguises his voice in a way that you think is that Tom Hardy? I can't tell and that could be said for Ahmed as well for his performance as Riot.

The fight scenes were well choreographed although there's not many in the film and also the effect is decent as well. The CGI makes Venom look different from any other version we have seen him on before as he looks both frightening yet comic accurate at the same time. Howvever there is a lot of things I did not like such as the pacing. The reason I don't like the pacing is that it felt off and made the film very inconsistent which makes the film become a total mess. I also didn't like the villain as he is kind of forgettable and doesn't really do much when he is probably included in the film's narrative. The beginning of the film was really boring and didn't really establish much apart from Eddie's a loser and Drake's the bad guy.

In conclusion, Venom is a bit of a mess, it has pacing issues and can be hard to follow at times however it is an enjoyable film to watch and the portrayal of Venom is much better than Topher Grace's performance in Spider-Man 3 which is considered to be one of the weakest Spider-Man movies out there. It has opened up for a possible sequel with another popular Symbiote but I won't spoil that for anyone who wants to see this movie.

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I would give Venom a 6/10- Has a lot of good elements in it and is an enjoyable movie however it has a lot of pacing problems making it a bit of a mess.

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