‘Venom: The Last Dance’ Review: Tom Hardy And Company Bravely Battle Comic-Book Fatigue In A Middling Marvel Symbiote Story
deadline.comIt’s somehow appropriate for a film about symbiotic creatures that the third and, for the time being, final instalment of Marvel’s Venom saga should be largely populated by British actors playing Americans.
Aside from leading man Tom Hardy, who plays investigative journalist Eddie Brock, there’s Chiwetel Ejiofor, Juno Temple, Rhys Ifans (Welsh, to be specific), and a return for Stephen Graham, coming back for more (but not much) after Venom: Let There Be Carnage.
It’s a great cast for sure, and the Venom franchise has always delivered on that front. But there’s a bit of Dunkirk spirit here, and it’s the poker-faced commitment of the supporting players — not to mention the surprisingly focused and largely unfussy direction of first-timer Kelly Marcel — that holds the fort in a film that struggles, much like Sam Raimi’s Spider-Man 3, to justify its existence.
The original Venom followed two years after Deadpool broke away from the mostly PG-13 Marvel tradition, its dark, adult-skewed, self-aware humor leading to the studio’s first R rating.
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