Venom (2018 film) Review

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Venom is a 2018 American superhero film based on the Marvel Comics character of the same name, produced by Columbia Pictures in association with Marvel.[7] Distributed by Sony Pictures Releasing, it is the first film in Sony's Marvel Universe, adjunct to the Marvel Cinematic Universe (MCU).[a] The film is directed by Ruben Fleischer from a screenplay by Scott Rosenberg, Jeff Pinkner, and Kelly Marcel, and stars Tom Hardy as Eddie Brock / Venom, alongside Michelle Williams, Riz Ahmed, Scott Haze, and Reid Scott. In Venom, journalist Brock is bound to an alien symbiote that gives him superpowers.

Sony began developing a Venom film after the character made his cinematic debut in Spider-Man 3 (2007). After various iterations, work on a new version began in March 2017 to start a new shared universe featuring the Marvel characters to which Sony possessed the film rights, though Sony also intended for the film to share the world of Spider-Man: Homecoming, which is set in the MCU after a deal between Sony and Marvel Studios. Rosenberg and Pinkner were set to write, with Fleischer and Hardy added in May 2017. Principal photography began in October 2017, taking place in Atlanta, New York City, and San Francisco.

Venom premiered in Westwood, Los Angeles on October 1, 2018, and was released in the United States on October 5, 2018. The film received generally negative reviews from critics, who criticized the inconsistent tone and script, although Hardy's performance was praised.[10]

While exploring space for new habitable worlds, a space probe belonging to bioengineering corporation Life Foundation discovers four symbiotic lifeforms and brings them back to Earth. One escapes in transit, causing the ship to crash in Malaysia, but the Life Foundation recovers the other three and transports them to their research facility in San Francisco. Its CEO, Carlton Drake, becomes obsessed with bonding symbiotes to humans to prepare humanity for Earth's inevitable ecological collapse, and begins illegally experimenting on vagrants, resulting in numerous deaths – including one of the remaining symbiotes – and attracting the attention of investigative journalist Eddie Brock, who arranges an interview with Drake through his girlfriend Anne Weying, a lawyer affiliated with the Life Foundation. Against instructions, Brock confronts Drake with confidential materials indicating wrongdoing that he stole from Weying's e-mail, leading to them both being fired from their respective jobs and the end of their relationship.

Six months later, Brock is approached by one of Drake's scientists, Dora Skirth, who disagrees with Drake's methods and wants to help Brock expose him. With her aid, Brock breaks into Drake's research facility to acquire evidence from his crimes, in the process learning that an acquaintance of his, a homeless woman named Maria, has become one of Drake's subjects. Brock attempts to rescue her, but Maria attacks him and the symbiote possessing her transfers from her body to his, killing her in the process. Brock manages to escape but soon begins displaying strange symptoms and reaches out to Weying for help. Her new boyfriend, Dr. Dan Lewis, examines Brock, discovering the symbiote and learning that it is vulnerable to noise. Meanwhile, Drake kills Skirth for her betrayal by exposing her to the remaining symbiote, leaving Brock's symbiote as the sole surviving specimen.

Brock is attacked by mercenaries employed by Drake to retrieve the symbiote, but the symbiote takes over his body – transforming him into a monstrous creature – to repel the attackers. Taking shelter at a nearby lighthouse, the symbiote communicates with Brock, introducing itself as Venom, and persuades him to form an alliance, so that he can experience life through Brock, while Brock gets to enjoy the superhuman attributes the symbiote affords him. Brock uses his newfound abilities to break into his old workplace to turn in evidence of Drake's crimes, but is intercepted by SWAT officers on the way out and transforms once again to escape. Weying calls him back to Lewis' office, where Brock learns that the symbiote is slowly rotting his internal organs. Although the symbiote claims it is part of their symbiosis, Brock uses an MRI machine to weaken the symbiote long enough to separate from it, but he is captured by Drake's men.

At Life Foundation's headquarters, Brock learns that Drake has bonded with the fugitive symbiote Riot and that they are planning to launch a probe into space and bring a legion of symbiotes back to Earth to assimilate the human race. Meanwhile, Weying reluctantly bonds with the symbiote and breaks into the Life Foundation to rescue Brock, transferring the symbiote back to him with a kiss. Brock and Venom merge once again and set out to stop Drake and Riot, battling them on the probe's launch platform. As the probe takes off, Venom manages to damage it, causing it to explode, killing Drake and Riot and foiling their plan. Shortly after, Brock has mended his relationship with Weying and returned to journalism, while secretly working alongside the symbiote to protect the city.

In a mid-credits scene, Brock interviews an incarcerated serial killer named Cletus Kasady, who assures Eddie that when he gets released from prison soon, there will be "carnage".

Tom Hardy as Eddie Brock / Venom:
An investigative journalist who becomes the host of an alien symbiote that imbues him with super-human abilities and a violent alter-ego: Venom.[11][12][13] Director Ruben Fleischer noted that unlike a werewolf or Jekyll and Hyde, the relationship between Brock and the symbiote is a "hybrid", with the two characters sharing a body and having to work together. Hardy was drawn to this duality, and compared the two characters to Ren and Stimpy. He gave each a distinctive voice: an "aw-shucks American accent" for Brock; and a "James Brown lounge lizard"-like voice for Venom,[14] that was "modulated to sound more sinister".[15] Hardy called Brock an antihero who would "do whatever he has to" to accomplish a goal.[13] Despite initial plans for Hardy to use performance capture for portraying Venom,[16] the idea was abandoned due to the difference between his facial features and those of the character.[17]
Michelle Williams as Anne Weying: A district attorney and Eddie's ex-fiance.[18][19]
Riz Ahmed as Carlton Drake / Riot:
A genius inventor and leader of the Life Foundation experimenting on the symbiotes.[12][13] Ahmed noted Drake is "trying to envision what the future of life looks like because the human race is almost done" and is "trying to do right by humanity and save the future" when he discovers the symbiote.[13] Drake is eventually bonded to another symbiote known as Riot, which Fleischer described as "a body-hopper".[13]
Scott Haze as Roland Treece: Drake's head of security.[20]
Reid Scott as Dr. Dan Lewis: Anne's new boyfriend who tries to help Eddie.[21]
Jenny Slate portrays Dr. Dora Skirth, a scientist working for the Life Foundation,[22] and Melora Walters appears as Maria, Brock's homeless acquaintance who is experimented on by Drake.[23] Additionally, Sope Aluko appears as Dr. Rosie Collins, Wayne Péré appears as Dr. Lloyd Emerson, and Mac Brandt appears as Jack the Bartender. [20] Ron Cephas Jones portrays Brock's boss, Jack.[24] Woody Harrelson appears in a mid-credits scene as Cletus Kasady.[25][26] Scott Deckert,[27] Marcella Bragio, Christian Convery, and Sam Medina also appear in the film[28] Stan Lee has a cameo near the end as a man walking his dog.[29