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Venom: The Last Dance Is Bad on Purpose
And, for all that Tom Hardy’s digitally-enhanced hand puppet act is fun to watch, that starts to feel insulting.
As Venom: The Last Dance progresses, and it becomes clear that Knull is going to remain in that swamp while dispatching portal-hopping spider-lizard-monster things to do his bidding, you might start to get that sinking feeling that accompanies so much late-period superhero universe fare, when you realize that half of the shit happening on screen is in service to some future installment that may or may not ever arrive. The first one was essentially a Madame Web- quality enterprise held together by Tom Hardy’s decision to play his character’s transformation from investigative journalist to carnivorous vigilante as a one-man buddy comedy. He attempts to head to New York and instead ends up in the Nevada desert, where scientist Dr. Teddy Payne (Juno Temple) and General Rex Strickland (Chiwetel Ejiofor) are running Imperium, an underground program for the study of symbiotes next to the soon-to-be-decommissioned site of Area 51.
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