Venom Review: Be Reel Blog #1

This weekend I watched Venom, an “Anti-Hero” blockbuster film starring Tom Hardy who both plays Eddie Brock and Venom itself. Hardy picked this role because his son is actually a huge Venom fan so he wanted to play a role which his son could watch and appreciate. Venom is based on one of Spider-Man’s most well-known enemies and sometimes ally in comic books and on Television. Spider-Man was not a part of this movie because he is already in the Marvel Cinematic Universe which is owned by Disney and even then, the director, Ruben Fleischer was not planning to add Spider-Man to the Venom movie. This movie is Eddie Brocks backstory of how his life was completely ruined from losing his job, his apartment and even his girlfriend all in the same day and how Eddie found and became Venom. The movie’s direction was to make a dark comedy/ action film which advertises itself to be dark and edgy.

Personally, I thought Venom was a complete mess of a film. I thought that almost everything in the movie was terrible. Almost every single actor in the movie did not play their role well at all. The CGI looked extremely fake. The score was not good and the music did not often fit with the scenes and atmospheres. Eminem’s new song for the movie I thought was terrible and a rap song did not capture what the Venom character was about. The editing is extremely bad, and an example of this is Venom and Eddie becoming a bromance then the next scene they were  murdering an entire swat team and the scene after that was that his ex casually takes him and Vemon TO A HOSPITAL and in the scene after that was in the hospital and somehow Vemon apparently was eating inside of Eddie then Eddie separated himself from venom and I’m even joking that this happens only about 5 minutes in the entire hour and 53 minutes of the film. It had such awkward editing because the movie was originally planned to be a rated R film but the idea of Venom being in the Marvel Cinematic Universe was mentioned which made it to a PG13. It really is a shame because we will never see those scenes that Tom Hardy was most proud of the movie. Speaking of Tom Hardy, him playing as Eddie Brock was no more than okay. His movements of a broken man who has an alien inside of him were good but his American accent was not authentic enough. The only thing I actually really liked in the movie was Venom himself. Unlike Eddie Brock, Tom Hardy actually did an extremely good job doing the voice of Venom and was actually extremely funny saying all of his cheesy jokes like he was supposed too like him in the comic book. plus Venom actually looks pretty good design although the CGI was bad and he didn’t have his signature spider symbol in his chest. As a big fan of Venom, I feel very disappointed that this movie was a big mess so I am giving it definite “Bad/Bad”.