It may have been a monster hit that raked in over $850 million at the box office, giving Sony the confidence to once again forge ahead on a shared universe only loosely connected to Spider-Man, but Venom was a very strange movie. The narrative, script, cinematography, visual effects and direction were all sorely lacking, and yet there was something fascinatingly watchable about the symbiotic origin story.
A lot of that had to do with Tom Hardy’s performance, where the acclaimed actor was clearly given carte blanche to play Eddie Brock however the hell he wanted, so he decided that a jittery sweating mess of nervousness and neuroses was the way to go. Somehow, it worked, with Hardy anchoring a pedestrian story with the sort of bravura turn full of eccentricities that the superhero genre could really do with seeing more often.
Fans knew exactly where the inevitable sequel was heading...
A lot of that had to do with Tom Hardy’s performance, where the acclaimed actor was clearly given carte blanche to play Eddie Brock however the hell he wanted, so he decided that a jittery sweating mess of nervousness and neuroses was the way to go. Somehow, it worked, with Hardy anchoring a pedestrian story with the sort of bravura turn full of eccentricities that the superhero genre could really do with seeing more often.
Fans knew exactly where the inevitable sequel was heading...
- 1/11/2021
- by Scott Campbell
- We Got This Covered
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