Former investigative reporter Eddie Brock (Tom Hardy) and his symbiote Venom, a sticky black parasite straight out of the Deadpool School Of Annoying Quippery, return for a superhero threequel that never feels any need to be darker or more portentous, but isn’t that much fun either. The banter between Brock and Venom has the rhythm of comedy but not the wit, the plotting is episodic and nonsensical, there are call backs to characters you probably won’t remember and – surprise, surprise – it all devolves into a climax where CG things clobber other CG things for roughly 20 minutes.
So much talent across the series – take a bow Hardy, Michelle Williams, Riz Ahmed, Woody Harrelson, Naomie Harris, Stephen Graham, Chewitel Ejiofor, Juno Temple, Rhys Ifans – and so little of it hitting the mark. Perhaps it is the right time for this parasite and host to go their separate ways
In US and UK Cinemas Oct 25.