Eddie and Venom are just like an old married couple-you know, a parasitic one that bickers about whether or not they should eat human heads or not-but at some point, that charm of their dynamic turns into droning obnoxiousness, hearing one growling mumble speak over another growling mumble. Like before, the best moments in the film are just seeing (and hearing) Hardy act opposite himself. (One exception is in the 1996-set prologue, where Harrelson and Harris’ voices are bafflingly dubbed over those of their younger counterparts, and it’s probably not meant to be funny.) Tom Hardy still dares to go all in, switching back and forth between both Eddie and his vicious counterpart. For the best, director Andy Serkis (2018’s “Mowgli: Legend of the Jungle”) and returning writer Kelly Marcel are not about to start taking any of this seriously. But if going full-Venom is what fans craved the first time around, it’s quite wearying in execution.
In what is being packaged as an over-the-top blast of silliness that goes full-Venom, “Venom: Let There Be Carnage” certainly doubles down on the visual noise. Somewhere in all of this, too, is hearing-impaired Detective Mulligan (Stephen Graham), who has Eddie assist him on a case involving a string of murders that are somehow being orchestrated by Cletus from behind bars.
Dan Lewis (Reid Scott) and just wants his blessing. To add more (alleged) tension, Eddie’s ex Anne (Michelle Williams) shares with him the news that she’s engaged with Dr. Meanwhile, when Venom is tired of snacking on chickens, he leaves the "Eddie Brock closet" to do some soul-searching. Unfortunately for all of San Francisco, Cletus ends up getting a literal taste of Eddie’s alien blood, only to become a blobby alien monster he calls “Carnage.” First things first, Cletus must find his mutant girlfriend Frances Barrison (Naomie Harris), who can caterwaul with lethal results and has been taken in secret to Ravencroft Institute.
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When Eddie visits serial killer Cletus Kasady (Woody Harrelson, now without the clown wig teased in the first movie's mid-credit scene) in his cell at San Quentin, he is offered an exclusive story to get his career back on track. He does more of that again, as Eddie still has alien symbiote Venom “in” him. Tom Hardy made the most of playing both bad-boy Daily Bugle journalist Eddie Brock and Venom with a delightfully schizophrenic performance.
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