Movie Review: Venom

Poison Cravings!

Venom

Why the world does not need a venom spewing alien superhero? Simply because this named Venom does not spew no venom! Duh! What were the makers thinking? Literally, logically why name an alien “Venom” that isn’t poisonous and rather feeds on other species? I mean look at the poster swirly and pointy tongue, far too many sharp teeth and eyes that make the letter "V", that is it. The creature looks more like the Alien from the movie “Alien Vs Predator.” The makers really wanted to play around with the concept of Good can be Evil, Evil can be Good so they created this illogical version of a superhero stemming out of the monstrous alien. They should have just shown the good-looking Tom Hardy as is and we would have accepted him as super hero and would have been happy watching him. With absence in logic to begin with Venom falls in the category of comedy movies to entertain yourself this year.

Few far fetched witty dialogues, page after page of borrowed action sequence and least bit of originality, the only thing that feels right is watching an alien as parasite hosted by Tom Hardy bounce around each other and their conversations in the head.

The lack of hope and love for humanity is the concept that has ruled in Hollywood for more than a decade now. They can’t do without  showing aliens living among  humans, so now they want to show aliens that dwell within humans. One would expect power packed, mind-boggling action sequences. All you will get are  the car and bike chases, which I found illogical as the Venom the alien was much faster on its own so why put him on any vehicle? There aren’t super fights between the good and the bad alien and this one fight only breaks out at the very end for a very short period. The alien says that he has started to like this human (Tom Hardy) but why the alien chose him and killed the other hosts is blurry and unclear. There are more questions than answers. The makers really need to visit how they want to unfold this story because I do anticipate a sequel.   

Venom with no venom can spew hilarious moments and Tom Hardy can bring across self-humor delightfully. It is a good time pass and you would come out of the hall happy and laughing.  I would recommend it for things to watch over the weekend after a bad week.