Movie Review: Venom (2018)

THIS REVIEW MAY CONTAIN SOME SPOILERS.

When you start watching a movie, all you want is to see the beautiful visuals presented in the whole duration, good dialogues, masterfully captured soundtrack echoed through the landscape and of course, entertainment. We watched movies because we want to be entertained, we paid the money for the tickets because we want to entice by the characters, the actors who played them and the overall of the picture. This is something that Venom struggled at the starting of the movie, but still it is unfair to say, “Yeah, the whole thing sucks – does not combined well with the fact that this doesn’t resonate some Spider-Man universe/elements in it”.

Venom sadly is a film that has been unjustly reviewed and not only does the film get ridiculed for poor plot, but also been constantly told in the face that it needs desperate need of stronger attachment to Spider-Man. I think it is important to start off the review talking about the criticism because the reviews are way off about the whole overall of this latest anti-hero film. I am talking about the fact that there might be people being buy off to compose a negative review on Venom for audience to turn their heads to watch A Star Is Born and other films in competition for Number One spot on box office this month.

Okay, back to the review that I will be writing which I need to get my momentum back after nearly a year of disappearing and constantly using Instagram to serve my laziness. Venom, starring Tom Hardy as the host of the supposed symbiote, Eddie Brook, is a film that I find neither good nor bad, but it was worth the watch thanks to the later adjustment of the pacing in the movie that somehow got me out of this fading synchronisation. What I meant was the beginning of the movie was a bore – from an awful music chosen for scenes like Eddie on the motorcycle and riding through parts of San Francisco as an introduction to his character, an uninteresting opening that includes showing how the villainous symbiote is, and of course, the way everything until the middle part was just totally off and not incredibly funny despite dialogues trying to break the ice.

The interaction between Eddie Brook and Venom thankfully made its way in the middle part of Venom, which makes up as the selling point of the whole presentation of convincing us to like the film. It was funny, witty and yet at the same time, it feels like two buddies with differences just lightening up the film which is supposedly to feel scary. The humour inside Venom does tickled and do a trick to make us still find the film enjoyable, so does the music that somehow doesn’t sound too awful and it seems like we were watching a typical hero film by Marvel/Sony. All in all, the performances put up by Tom Hardy as Eddie Brook/Venom were very much the thing that made the story so much juicer and hungrier because the relationship between two were in our hearts when we watched on to the end.

The rest of the cast members were fine, just not as remarkably as what you would want to see in the story but still they delivered a decent performance that allows the film not to be miserably sank. The action sequences in Venom were perfectly alright, but it just needs more kicking and feels to them to make the story knockably strong enough to overcome flaws that were obvious in the beginning of the film, and at least, leaves the audience some realisation or takeaway, some wow when they come out of the cinema.

Venom is a film that could have been a great introduction to the cinema or to newer audience if whoever in charge of the film realised some good and bad points of the story to market the film. I did leave the cinema with the feeling that I have been entertained and yet it is surprising that not everyone feels that way. Maybe, Venom has yet to understand the general audience and no, no, the film is not a loser. Venom is a good loser who has yet to figure out itself and hopefully when a sequel is in progress, maybe it can try to work things out to reconcile with the audience.

Other than that, I did like the film.

Rating: 6/10