Venom: Let There Be Carnage is the sequel to the 2018 Venom film and this time Smeagol himself Andy Serkis is in the directors chair but Tom Hardy is back as Eddie Brock/Venom and this time his story concerns Cletus Kasidy (Woody Harrelson) who is being executed for his crimes as a serial killer meanwhile his teenage love (Naomie Harris) sits in a top secret facility due to her ability to create sonic sound from her mouth but Cletus takes a bite out of Eddie’s hand and starts to change into the creature Carnage which he promises to bring once he’s released.
Venom 2 is fine, it’s a movie I don’t hate but its also one I didn’t really love all that much either but there are some good positives to be found here, the first of which is Tom Hardy as Eddie and Venom, their bickering every time it came on screen had me laughing a lot in the cinema and it rarely got boring and given how much I’ve come to loathe humour in modern movies nowadays this movie is an example of it done very very well.
The second is Woody Harrelson, the more I watched of him in this film I thought to myself “Is he doing a parody of his character from Natural Born Killers?” and he doesn’t so much as do a parody but more of a cartoon version of his character from that film and to his credit and my surprise it kinda works for the most part, as for Naomie Harris she’s fine and you can see she is having fun but she wasn’t all that memorable either.
And lastly Andy Serkis does a far better job directing this movie than Ruben Fleischer did directing the first film, his long experience with motion capture and visual effects character creation serves him well here in creating the dynamic between Eddie and Venom and Cletus and Carnage and their fight scenes don’t look anywhere near as gooey or rubbery as they did in the first film and also Serkis choosing to use the 1.85 to 1 aspect ratio has proven to be a good choice as opposed to using the 2.35 to 1 ratio the first film and many other Comic Book movies use and hopefully more directors will go back to 1.85 if they feel they can’t make good use of 2.35 to 1.
And so that was Venom: Let There Be Carnage and its fine, its not bad but its also not anything you will remember either, it’s just there as a fun distracting watch, 3 out of 5.
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