With its campy tone, underwritten villain and dodgy CGI, 2018’s Venom was like a throwback to pre- MCU comic-book movies where superior efforts like Batman Begins and Spider-Man 2 were overpowered by duds including Jonah Hex and Ghost Rider .
Sequel Let There Be Carnage is unfortunately more of the same but has a couple of things going for it that ensures an improvement on its predecessor - Woody Harrelson’s baddie and an equally committed performance from Tom Hardy’s antihero.
Andy Serkis replaces the first film’s Ruben Fleischer in the director’s chair, marking only his third feature-length outing behind the camera.The Lanarkshire Live app is available to download now.
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