MOVIE: Venom (Film Review)

With my Lifemate =)

As everyone waited for the Venom film to released globally, everyone also anticipates how an antihero become a hero in his own movie. And I am one of them of course! Great Appreciation to Vox Cinemas Qatar, Doha Festival City, Empire Movies, and Virgin Megastore Qatar, I was given a chance again to join the premiere night of VENOM.

Complimentary Popcorn and Soda 

The film revolves around Eddie Brock played by Tom Hardy who enjoys his profession as investigative journalist. With turn of events, he lost his job and his fiancé when he ignored the instruction of his boss during his interview with Carlton Drake, the leader of the LIFE Foundation. For months he couldn’t find a permanent job as he is banned from working in journalism, until he is approached by one of LIFE’s scientists, Dr. Dora Skirth, explaining the experiment they are doing with Symbiotes.

Venom made a remarkable debut as the villain in 2007 SpiderMan 3. Each scene with Peter Parker (played by Toby Maguire) left something new to viewers. You can sense the charm, the character of Eddie Brock as an ambitious journalist, and the agility of being an anti-hero who just wanted to take revenge. I admired the scene so much when Spidey used the steel pipes to surround Venom during their fighting scene and created noise so that Venom will lose its bond with Eddie.

But when the anti-hero who became the HERO in his own film, I  did not sense the same spark on it. The “wow factor” cannot be felt on most of the sequence. Tough the movie achieved some of the quirkiness and funny jokes which are actually cute, still those are not enough to carry out the whole film. Eddie’s Chemistry with Venom is way better than his chemistry with his fiancé. While Tom Hardy’s performance in Mad Max Fury and Michelle Williams in Brokeback Mountain brought them outstanding recognitions, I am sure many of the critics will agree that in this film, “they are not meant for each other”. Although, the shallowness of the story line can still be considered since this is the first Venom movie, and a standalone film as there are no other marvel Characters depicted. But knowing Ruben Fleischer, the man behind "Zombieland", he can still do something beyond his limit.

A Family of Movie Goers

Venom Movie is quite good I think. Enjoyable to watch in some ways. But considering that it comes from Marvel Family, good is really not enough.