{"id":7539,"date":"2024-10-27T12:56:26","date_gmt":"2024-10-27T16:56:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/movieguy247.com\/MovieGuy\/?p=7539"},"modified":"2024-12-09T11:03:24","modified_gmt":"2024-12-09T16:03:24","slug":"venom-the-last-dance","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/movieguy247.com\/MovieGuy\/2024\/10\/27\/venom-the-last-dance\/","title":{"rendered":"Venom: The Last Dance"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"Venom: The Last Dance<\/strong> (2024)\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Columbia\/Sci-Fi-Action-Adventure\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 RT: 109 minutes\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Rated PG-13 (intense sequences of action and violence, bloody images, strong language)\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Director: Kelly Marcel\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Screenplay: Kelly Marcel\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Music: Dan Deacon\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Cinematography: Fabian Wagner\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Release date: October 25, 2024 (US)\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Cast: Tom Hardy, Chiwetel Ejiofor, Juno Temple, Rhys Ifans, Stephen Graham, Peggy Lu, Clark Backo, Alanna Ubach, Andy Serkis, Cristo Fernandez, Jared Abrahamson, Hala Finley, Dash McCloud, Brooke Carter.<\/p>\n

Rating<\/strong>: ** \u00bd<\/p>\n

\u00a0What do you want me to say about Venom: The Last Dance<\/strong>? It\u2019s yet another movie based on a Marvel property. It\u2019s part of the same universe as Morbius and Madame Web. It\u2019s the third and supposedly final movie featuring the character of Venom, a parasitic alien who lives in the body of its host, former reporter Eddie Brock played by Tom Hardy (Mad Max: Fury Road). But I\u2019m sure you already know all this.<\/p>\n

\u00a0Why don\u2019t I just cut right to the chase? Venom: The Last Dance<\/strong> is pretty much what you\u2019d expect with its beyond dumb plot, bad CGI and Hardy looking annoyed with the whole bloody thing. I get it. So am I. I\u2019ve had it up to here with all the superhero silliness. I wasn\u2019t exactly thrilled about having to endure a third Venom film. They\u2019re okay, but hardly what I\u2019d call noteworthy. To me, they\u2019re all about the same. I guess what I\u2019m trying to say is Venom: The Last Dance<\/strong> is as good as a Venom movie can be.<\/p>\n

\u00a0The latest chapter picks up not long after the previous installment with Eddie\/Venom on the run from the cops, the government and a new nemesis, an alien baddie named Knull (Serkis, the LOTR trilogy), the creator of symbiotes. He\u2019s after something called a \u201cCodex\u201d. It\u2019s a key that can free him from the prison where he\u2019s being held. He wants to get out and wreak havoc everywhere. The Codex is inside Eddie and can only be seen when Venom takes over his body. Knull sends an ugly creature to retrieve it.<\/p>\n

\u00a0Meanwhile, gung ho military leader Colonel Strickland (Ejiofor, Doctor Strange) is tasked with finding and destroying Venom by any means necessary. He works out of Area 51 which is currently in the process of being decommissioned. For years, it\u2019s been used as a secret study center for symbiotic alien life forms. The head scientist is Dr. Teddy Payne (Temple, Ted Lasso). She comes to learn why the symbiotes have come to Earth. It isn\u2019t for anything good. In any event, it all leads up to a big battle between good and bad symbiotes.<\/p>\n

\u00a0That\u2019s the plot of Venom: The Last Dance<\/strong> more or less. As you can see, it\u2019s as silly as any movie starring a comic book character. It\u2019s the directorial debut of Kelly Marcel, the writer of the first two Venom films. To her credit, she keeps things moving along at a decent pace. If I had to guess, I\u2019d say it\u2019s so audiences don\u2019t have time to realize how stupid it all is. It has a few bright spots like the family of alien seekers led by a hippie dude named Martin Moon (Ifans, Lizard from The Amazing Spider-Man). Riding along in their van, Venom joins them in a rendition of David Bowie\u2019s \u201cSpace Oddity\u201d. Later, he dances with series regular Mrs. Chen (Lu) to \u201cDancing Queen\u201d in a Las Vegas hotel room. Was he always this musical?<\/p>\n

\u00a0There are times when Venom: The Last Dance<\/strong> borders on being fun, but Marcel never really leans into it all the way. She keeps resorting to scenes of Eddie\/Venom trying to stay one step ahead of his pursuers. She overrelies on unfunny running jokes like Eddie\/Venom\u2019s tendency to keep losing his footwear. The CGI, and there\u2019s a lot of it, is especially bad. At times, it\u2019s surprisingly dark and gloomy for a superhero flick. There was once a time when audiences didn\u2019t believe a man could fly. Now they can\u2019t believe a man can fly or do anything heroic without the aid of computer graphics. Every effect in Venom: The Last Dance<\/strong> is obviously the work of computers. It makes me think that somebody actors will be obsolete. Why hire people when you can invent them with AI? I really hope I don\u2019t live to see that day.<\/p>\n

\u00a0Is it even worth it to talk about the acting? It\u2019s really not. Hardy does just enough to make it look like he\u2019s trying, but there\u2019s no hiding the air of annoyance surrounding him. Ejiofor and Temple do what they can with their one-dimensional characters. Ifans adds some life as the goofy alien enthusiast. Lu is only in it briefly, but she adds a dash of life too. Honestly, acting isn\u2019t one of this film\u2019s strong suits. In fact, it\u2019s completely irrelevant. The actors are basically warm bodies in the middle of a lot of computerized razzle-dazzle.<\/p>\n

\u00a0For all its faults, I can\u2019t quite say Venom: The Last Dance<\/strong> is a bad movie. It\u2019s more of a movie that verges on bad. It\u2019s certainly not good. The one consistency is that it always feels like something generated by a computer. There are no original ideas. It\u2019s simply product meant to provide fans with a fix until the next big Marvel movie, February\u2019s Captain America: Brave New World. What can I say? I\u2019m bursting with fruit flavor.\"\"<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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