Save your money. Don't see Venom
A tag line of the Venom marketing campaign is "The world has enough superheroes", promising that we're going to see something rare: a thrilling origin story of one of Marvel's best comic book villains. Sadly, this film is made by Sony, meaning that another promise has been broken. Tom Hardy, the only reason your girlfriend wants to see this film, plays Eddie Brock, a reporter who really cares too much about homeless people. Obligatory scary corporation, the Life Foundation, somehow jumps to the conclusion that bringing back parasitic aliens from outer space is the answer to all of the world's problems. These aliens are called symbiotes, colour-varied balls of sentient CGI that need to attach to a living host to survive. Following a stressfully dull 40 minutes of nothing happening, Eddie is bonded with the symbiote, Venom. With a preference for biting people's heads off after oddly licking them, Venom is on a body-sharing adventure with Eddie to s