Venom: Last Dance
Eddie Brock (Tom Hardy) and his symbiotic partner from space, collectively known as Venom, are on the lamb from the law, but, en route to New York the two are stopped by an interstellar bounty hunter that’s searching for a codec destined to free an evil and imprisoned king galaxies away. Now sought by officials on earth and threats from out of this world Eddie and his buddy will have to make difficult decisions that could end their partnership, lest the earth be turned to dust.
Written by Kelly Marcel and Tom Hardy and Directed by Kelly Marcel, this jam packed conclusion to the Venom trilogy hits the ground running and delivers the semi-irreverent but simple enough humor and of course requisite gore to signify an alien with a taste for human flesh. Albeit, the plot line here isn’t exactly Tolstoy, but that’s not the point, fans of the graphic novel most likely aren’t looking for dramatic subtext or rich meaning, instead we’re offered a basic good guy/bad guy duopoly, and that’s it. Side plots are quickly abandoned with little explanation, end result, a rockin’ conclusion, yet even for it’s brief runtime, an hour and forty nine minutes including credits, the whole act seems a bit overstayed. But, if you’ve stayed with the franchise this long, chances are the Marvel Fatigue won’t hit now, enjoy Venom: Last Dance, which comes in with a strategic and guideline fitting PG-13 rating.