Venom: The Last Dance Review

Venom: The Last Dance, reviewed by Tom Jorgensen.

If this is truly the last dance, then things end for Venom much as they began: with a mostly boring superhero story occasionally elevated by a jittery Jekyll-and-Hyde performance from Tom Hardy. Venom: The Last Dance is torn between its responsibilities to big-budget comic book moviemaking and a more-focused genre story of a boy and his alien. The threat Knull poses from afar often steals the movie’s focus to disappointing results, but there’s still some fun to be had on this freaky ride into the sunset – largely courtesy of the toothy, titular symbiote. Lackluster action and new additions that distract from the unique relationship at the franchise’s heart suggest it’s past time to send this Venom horse to the glue factory. Hopefully we get something back that sticks a little more.