It’s a lot like the first one.
It’s kinda trashy, and it’ll probably make you cringe at least a few times, but it can’t help to be fun occasionally.
Tom Hardy clearly enjoyed himself making it, Woody Harrelson is fine.
The action is alright, but the production value is awful, the whole visual look is dated and cheap.
Like, this was shot by Quentin Tarantino’s DP, but you’ll never be able to tell that because of the production choices made by Sony.
The plot itself is very thin, uninspired and mostly forgettable.

Everything about it is extremely disposable, and the whole thing just screams ‘streaming movie’ to me.
You really don’t need to waste your money on this by watching it on a premium format.

4/10

They let a 4 year old go into a candy shop, and the kid made a mess and ruined the shop for everybody.

Bad. Basically unwatchable. I fast forwarded through most of it despite its relatively short run time.

The dialog is atrocious and the storyline is paper thin. None of the jokes land. It's just annoying and loud.

I am sure I am not the only one who does not like this piece of work. It looks like a cartoon movie and the target audience must be under 18. Although I like Hardy, Harrelson and also Graham, same jokes and predictable CGI scenes make it a little hard to watch the flow. 5/10

I've seen worse. But it's not good, and it doesn't remotely resemble the source material. It's a PG-13 comfortably dumb movie and it suffers from its shackles. Carnage is hammy and goofy rather than sadistic and maniacal. Not recommended.

Action is okay, CGI doesn't look bad but the story just isn't there.

Like for example [spoiler]there's this research facility the girlfriend is in but like nothing happens with that except that Cletus rescues her from generic bad guys.[/spoiler]

I didn't get as much entertainment from this as I did with its predecessor. Still narrowly good enough, though.

'Venom: Let There Be Carnage' - great title, fwiw - does retain the fun performance from Tom Hardy, while the introductions of Stephen Graham, Woody Harrelson and Naomie Harris are welcomed ones in terms of the cast; even if I think their characters, particularly the latter two, are a little hit-and-miss throughout.

The action and the fact that the film only lasts for around 90 minutes mean I didn't have a negative time watching this; it is sillier this time out, which also helps. Could be a 6/10 film, but for me it inches itself into 7/10 territory.

I came to watch a comic, they gave me a cartoon.

The action scenes weren't terrible and the story wasn't awful, but I don't like the choices Tom Hardy made for the role and the relationship between name and Venom just looked silly. I bet the comic is a lot cooler than this PG Deadpool.

This is pretty much a villain-of-the-week tv episode. There's not much to it. It's all on the surface, no substance. It's so weird that the movie was less than 90 minutes. They needed way more time to devote to the story, which is odd because the editing was horrible (see prison escape scene). They also watered down Cletus' character so much. They managed to take a serial killer, and ruin his motivations.

Without Tom Hardy, this franchise would be hot garbage. He is clearly the best part of it. Hopefully they can find better writers, or else his talent is being wasted.

I really love Tom Hardy. Unfortunately, I really did not love this movie. Everything about it felt underdeveloped and one-dimensional. And that one dimension, the weird, pseudo-buddy-cop dynamic between Eddie Brock and Venom, is just not a very compelling dimension. I remember the quirky humor landing more often in the first one, but here it felt forced almost the entire time. I think the efforts they are taking to make Venom some sort of semi-good guy are misguided at best. The movie also feels like it's in a hurry, which may have contributed to the underdeveloped feeling. Alternatively, the short runtime and rapid pace also kept me watching even though I wasn't getting much out of it, so it may have also been a saving grace. When I think of the weaker Marvel movies, sometimes the action/spectacle is enough to coax a 6 or 7 out of me even when everything else was a let down. Unfortunately, that was not the case here, as the battle of CGI characters on display did nothing to impress.

watchable.. that's about it unfortunately

"Venom: Let There Be Carnage" has got to be one of the worst superhero movies I have ever seen, especially from Sony. It exists solely to capitalize off of Tom Hardy's buddy cop romantic chemistry with Venom, and yet this time around, it's no longer funny - it's just gross. Venom is incredibly abusive to Eddie simply for trying to keep him from murdering whoever he wants, and the film expects us to accept that Venom is somehow in the right.

Furthermore, the script is an atrocity, filled with terrible one-liners and terrible pacing. Nothing in this movie feels authentic. Even Michelle Williams is put to shame during this film. The acting is horrendous because the script gives them nothing to work with. The cinematography is also terrible - It has some interesting ideas and settings, and yet it's always zoomed in on the characters' faces, preventing us from witnessing the cool scenery.

But hey, at least the final fight is better than the first movie's.

Utter trash; could have been written by a fifth grader.

What a disappointing movie! It is a huge step down from the first one but Tom Hardy is as brilliant as ever. The script is the culprit here and the editing as well. A hot mess that is way too short.

I don’t know why everyone seems to be hating on this movie, but I thoroughly enjoyed it and had a lot of fun. That end credit scene got me really excited!

Better than the first? I've got to say no and that reason being because of the comedy that got too much for the film and it became cheesy at times but there were some good moments for the comedy also I was disappointed in the lack of action when you compare to the first film and that's probably because they focused more on the comedy but again some good moments in that too along with some cool effects and same with first film an easy plot to follow and was carnage done right? no and yes but over all I enjoyed it but it could of been better also great performance from Tom Hardy. P.S Good post credit scene.

There’s a lot of quibbles I have with this film. Carnage isn’t much of a villain, Naomi Harris has a thankless role as Shriek. I understand the point to contrast Carnage with Venom, but removing the closeness of Carnage with its host removes the most interesting wrinkle of the character. It could’ve been a nice bit of fun to have them contrast Venom by being sickening sweethearts, but instead Carnage is oddly bland. And I can’t pretend Mulligan is at all a good set up for the next villain. Whenever this film strays from Eddie and Venom, it suffers.

But! Eddie and Venom are such a treat when they are the focus! They’re unabashedly weird messes, and this film embraces the homoerotic undertones to its benefit. The gay club, the beach scene… these films will be perfect when they stop having the obligatory third act cliches and keep the focus squarely on the core duo.

Shame. Hardy is a great Brock/Venom. Harrelson had all the potential in the world to deliver a properly unhinged and menacing Carnage.

But it fails on just about every single front. The story is so by the numbers it's painful. Typical Superhero Sequel schlock. The hero has an identity crisis and the sides split for a while before they get threatened by the Big Bad and make-up and kick the Big Bad's arse coz that's how the movie needs to end, not through any actual effort or self-discovery on their part.

The movie felt like a disjointed series of checkboxes being strung together with the flimsiest string. The first wasn't a masterpiece, but it had a charm in spite of its flaws. This just fails to meet the first on any level.

[spoiler]Hopefully, merging Venom into the MCU brings us a better third outing.[/spoiler] I don't know exactly where this one fell apart, but I feel bad for all the outstanding talent that was wasted on it.

I hate to say it, but this was terrible from top to bottom. Considering the talent here, I'm surprised they were able to make something this bad. Hardy, Serkis, Graham, what happened here my guys? You're better than this. You're all better than this. On top of that, what a waste of Cletus, Carnage and Woody. Limiting this character to a PG13 was bad enough, but the script and arc given to such a prolific character was horrific. And belittling Venom down to a pouty child, with humourous segments straight out of 90s kids movie?! It's eyeroll worthy, and dare I say cringe.
I think the only redeeming sequence of this movie was the church fight scene. Save yourself the wasted time and just watch that part on YouTube if you can. Heres to hoping that Disney wash their hands of this mess and redo the characters properly.

this movie was slow motion, carnage should have been brought out as a stronger villain, I mean come on he eats him to destroy him. The 1st one was better had a better story line.

admirably light-hearted but utterly disposable sequel

[6/10] Fair movie, but not that special. Good fun action packed 1,5 hours with great visuals. Story and jokes are pretty lame in my opinion.

That after credit scene though.. :eyes::pray_tone1::star_struck:

Wtf is Calypso doing? Where tf is Davy Jones?

AWH MAN!!! I thought it was coming this year!!! That sucks!!! :rolling_eyes:

That post credit scene with Peter Parker was crazy! Maybe that claw thing in the No Way Home trailer is Venom! Good movie!

Andy Serkis is just not a good director

I always think: 'Don't let a CAM spoil your opinion of a movie.'
"Cowboys and Aliens," seemed ridiculous, but I've learned it's just harder to invest myself emotionally when it's not DVD quality.

We watched it this morning and enjoyed it. If you liked the 1st one I'd say that you'll enjoy this one as well. The banter between Eddie and Venom was funny at times. The action was pretty good but nothing new. The one thing that really changed in this movie was the overall color. The movie isn't as dark as the first film. Especially in the fight scenes. You could actually see Venom and Carnage fighting each other.

There is a mid credit scene that's awesome even though I haven't figured out exactly how it happens yet. No after credit scene.

more four days at this movieeeee