Venom - a review!

Yesterday was the day when I decided to go watch the new Venom movie. I saw the teaser trailer a long time ago, and I wasn't really interested. But then when the first real trailer dropped, it peaked my interest.

The story is pretty straight forward: An investigative journalist, Eddie Brock, comes across a plot to fuse symbiotes from outer space with humans. The result is unknown, but has the potential to create life that will be able to live on Mars or even on the Moon. Not a bad thing, if I am honest.

Anyway, back to the movie!

It soon becomes clear, that these experiments has a somewhat unfortunate effect on people, because it ends up killing them. But not Eddie. It somehow bonds with him, and it transforms him into the character Venom.

I will not go into more detail, since it is still running in the cinemas, so if I go further, I will just spoil the movie for you, which isn't cool to do!

Usually when I review movies, I have three boxes that HAS to be ticked, in order for me to enjoy it!

1: Explosions! And lots of them!

2: At least one fist fight.

3: Car chases!

Venom ticks all those boxes! It has plenty of fist fights, some amazing chase sequences and a lot of explosions! Like - a LOT! Kaboom! One of them in particular made my inner 5-year old come out and go "awesome!"

It is rated PG 13, which shows. It uses a fair amount of humor, particularly the scene where Venom talks to Eddie for the first time, and when Eddie displays Venom's appearance to a neighbor who plays the guitar just a bit tooo loud.

Regarding the acting, well there is really not anything I can say was bad. I am not a Tom Hardy fan, but I liked him in this one. Michelle Williams, Riz Ahmed and Reid Scott also does a great job! I was particularly happy with Riz Ahmed's performance as Carlton Drake!

All in all, it was a solid, entertaining movie from Sony, and you can tell Marvel had a big say in this one. It said "In association with Marvel", but I bet that they had more to to with it than they let on.

If you haven't seen Venom, now is the time to do so.

I shall give this an 8 out of 10!