Venom: The Last Dance is the third and final installment in the Marvel film series, in which a helmeted alien with terrifying teeth and a Gene Simmons tongue merges with a silently overpaid method actor. It is. Or something like that. Since this is the grand finale, the film’s director, Kelly Marcel (who co-wrote the previous two Venom films, also wrote the screenplay for this one, and is making his debut in front of the camera this time around) has some sort of You may have felt a lack of self-control. When you watch The Last Dance, it erases all the distinctions between filming a movie, jumping the shark, and just saying, “Oh my god, let’s do it!” Dew.
As of the second film in the series, Venom: Let There Be Carnage (2021), the relationship between the alien entity and its host, the corrupt investigative journalist Eddie Brock (Tom Hardy), has Then it becomes as follows. Venom settled into a comfortable, sensible second-class superhero groove. Venom: The Last Dance followed suit and was a full-on buddy movie, with Hardy’s creepy, marble-mouthed Eddie playing a sullen straight man and an alien now on a happiness pill. It’s driving him crazy, like Darth Vader’s voice. Or maybe the alien with that bass stentorian tone just knows how to party. He gets all the good lines as if he was placed on Earth to outshine his host’s body.
When Eddie says he needs to travel to New York, the alien replies, “Let’s go.” Road trip! ” They are America’s last ’70s hippies, led by Rhys Evans as Martin, a kind-hearted UFO fanatic who loads his wife and two children into an ancient Volkswagen van to see the legendary Nevada military installation area. He ends up meeting a family that seems to be his family. “These are our children,” Martin, 51, said, which led the alien to predict “that he will be in treatment for the rest of his life.” Then, as Martin pulled out his guitar and led everyone in a sing-along version of “Space Oddity,” Alien yelled, “This is my jam!” And we’re not even saying what happens once they get to Las Vegas. In the slot machine room, Eddie meets Venom’s old friend Mrs. Chen (Peggy Lu). The owner of a convenience store turns out to be a gambling addict. She and the alien end up performing a sweet and fantastical dance duet. To “Dancing Queen”. That’s a moment that should be preserved in Las Vegas, and The Last Dance is that kind of movie.
But that’s another story. Because don’t be afraid. — a reliably humorless, run-of-the-mill countdown-to-the-end-of-the-world plot with a cosmic villain and a ton of monster battles like we’ve seen 8,000 times before. When you put Andy Serkis’ name on something, it becomes a symbol of authenticity, but given the personality he often brings, it’s hard to imagine a computer-voiced Knull character resembling The Crypt Keeper (or Bret Michaels). It might have been a good idea to guess. I bowed my head. He is imprisoned by a family of symbiotes, and in order to be freed he needs the Codex, a mysterious device that happens to be implanted in Venom’s body. And that will continue until one of the entities that make up Venom – the alien or Eddie – dies.
To ensure this, Knull created a giant, fast-moving, spindly creature (with a terrapin-like head, multiple legs and a tail) that looked like it got lost on its way home from the Starship Troopers sequel. send out. It has a way of swallowing humans whole like eating ramen, and several more monsters appear before the climactic showdown. It must be said that if Knull laid his claws on the Codex, he vowed to destroy all life in the universe. When the hard-nosed General Strickland, played by Chiwetel Ejiofor, learns of this, his intentions are clear. Knull intends to destroy Venom before he can claim the codex.
But everything goes haywire after Venom shows up at Area 51, the location of a giant underground laboratory that is being decommissioned by the U.S. government. Juno Temple is Dr. Payne, a scientist who still believes in the glory of the extraterrestrial matter he studies. When Stephen Graham, someone seriously should cast him as Alex Jones, reappears as ex-detective Patrick Mulligan and transforms into the Christmas-green alien hybrid Toxin, she thinks he’s the bee’s knees. .
The “Venom” movies are part of Sony’s Spider-Man universe (which is a very boring sentence to write, let alone ponder). And perhaps that’s why Tom Hardy, since the first “Venom,” is the coolest guy to do a comic book franchise by playing Eddie as a borderline idiot who puts his slam in quotes and speaks like an adult version. That may be why they chose to offset one of the Bowery Boys. This performance worked in a way, as it kept the series light throughout. But it also ensured that the “Venom” movie was nothing more than a lark aimed at the pleasure centers of arrested fanboys. In other words, the more larks and CGI there are, the better.
This is welcome without lingering. You basically have 90 minutes until the end credits (which includes the most half-hearted teaser I’ve ever seen). Some might say this movie is emotional, but given how much time we’ve spent with Eddie, the aliens, and the oily tentacles, I don’t think this necessarily marks the end of a beautiful friendship. I didn’t think so. The film features a heartbreaking montage of Venom’s key bonding moments set to Maroon 5’s “Memories,” but all I can say about this sequence is that it’s a little “Saturday Night Live.” is. The Venom movie was successful and had some fun, but I can’t say it was really good. It’s like a placeholder for the comic book you’re distributing. They’re also an objective lesson in what can happen when an arresting actor like Tom Hardy becomes host to the alien world of corporate filmmaking.
