Venom

Ironically, the film lacks a bit of bite...

The film devotes way too much time to exposition (the first act feels like it goes on for about an hour), but once it gets going it's decent fun.

The result is so infantile that you barely care to wait for the mandatory mid-credit Marvel teasers.

There's a lot of fun to be had if you go in and turn your brain off and go with it.

A waste of a perfectly good Tom Hardy.

The movie becomes about Eddie and Venom coming to an arrangement. There is a lot of humour, including a sly riff on the Batman movies from Marvel rival DC Comics.

Venom is yet another missed opportunity to deliver a great movie about the symbiote anti-hero.

Despite the movie's flaws – which there are a lot – "Venom" surpasses a lot of that negativity through what is does really well: that is, the relationship between Venom and Eddie.

Ultimately it’s the script and some pretty uninspired action that left me feeling a bit deflated. Sadly a good Tom Hardy, Fleisher’s edgy ambition, or even a killer end credits scene can’t quite keep “Venom” from disappointing.

Venom blandly wants you to shut up and consume. It really is worth pondering whether or not you should.