Venom Film Review

Finished watching Venom, directed by Ruben Fleischer and starring Tom Hardy, Riz Ahmed, Michelle Williams and Jenny Slate. The film opens with a Life Foundation spaceship crash landing back on Earth after traveling to an astroid where the crew have gathered several symbiotes with one symbiote escaping from the crash by taking over different human body to get catch up with the others. Meanwhile in San Francisco reporter Eddie Brock (Tom Hardy) has gotten himself an interview with the head of the Life Foundation Carlton Drake (Riz Ahmed) about the current situation of the company's space department however Eddie goes of script when he questions Drake about the human testing in his pharmaceuticals division after seeing emails on his fiancée Anne's (Michelle Williams) laptop which leads to Eddie along with Anne being fired by both of their jobs before Anne leaves Eddie. Six months later an unemployed Eddie is met by Life Foundation scientist Dora Skirth (Jenny Slate) after becoming worried that her boss is going to far with his experiments with the Symbiotes and while investigating within the Life Foundation building as Eddie soon comes into contact with Venom as he becomes host to the Symbiote. Overall this was a good film as it brings the popular Marvel character to life with a story that makes Venom his own character thanks to the way the film puts more focus on to the relationship between Eddie and Venom as the remaining Symbiotes and the Life Foundation having their own motivations that allows for Spider-Man's absence to have zero effect on this version of Venom. The character interactions throughout are great as especially the interacts between Eddie and Venom as the two have some great comedic moments within the film while the film also has Venom being more a a good thing for Eddie as the symbiote try's to help Eddie in his personal life while also being annoyed by him in some places. The action set pieces are throughout the film are great from the extremely well shot case scene that has a good amount of tension and suspense within the scene to the fights scenes with Venom that put all of his powers and abilities on show to great effect. However the final fight scene between Venom and Riot while it takes advantage of both of the symbiotes powers it does become hard to differentiate between the two characters as they both are very similar in colour while also fighting at night doesn't help either with the darker lighting. 7/10.