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.

It’s a lot like the first one. It’s kinda trashy and childish, 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

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.

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 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.