Film Review - Venom: The Last Dance (2024)

Venom the Last Dance is directed by Kelly Marcel who co-wrote the first 2 films as well as this one and Tom Hardy returns once again as Venom/Eddie Brock who are now on the run due to the events of the last film Let There be Carnage when an alien overlord known as Knull (Andy Serkis) seeks a codex inside Eddie/Venom’s body and sends his monstrous soldiers to Earth to retrieve it putting Eddie and Venom’s lives and bond in danger.

Venom the Last Dance is not the best movie you will see but like the other 2 films it is a fun time nonetheless and Tom Hardy is once again on top form as Eddie/Venom and like in the last film every time their on screen talking to each other I find myself smiling and laughing a whole lot as their banter is so much fun to watch and very funny.

Outside of Hardy however the film does have some script problems and those mainly fall on the other characters not being all that memorable, Rhys Ifans stars as a quasi hippie dad looking for Area 51 and Aliens and his scenes are okay but they tended to drag on screen after a while, Chiwetel Ejiofor and Juno Temple are government officers wanting the Venom symbiote to go with the other they’ve collected and those scenes are okay but again I just found myself going “Can we go back to Hardy now please.”

What also helps this movie is the third act which is a lot of fun to watch with big action across the board that actually looks like it was shot and edited properly, I don’t want to say too much more about it as there are some fun surprises in store but it definitely put a smile on my face and there is some surprisingly good emotional moments as well.

And when all is said and done while I feel superhero movies have had their day as being the dominant genre in cinemas I will miss Hardy’s Venom, it was a fun character to watch and he always made me laugh in this trilogy.

And so that was Venom the Last Dance and honestly I had a good time here, its fun, funny with good action and some surprisingly good emotional moments, 3 out of 5.