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
