#SLAPDASH DISPATCH MOVIE#
Just as in the "Spider-Man" comics, from which Venom originates, the movie is predicated on what can go wrong in a lab. The potential scientific benefit of this is a little iffy, but in practice, it means one person after another is led into a chamber where the organism takes over their body and quickly kills it. These are the sorts of things we did in the 1980s.īut a whistleblower in Drake's lab contacts Brock and brings him in to reveal what's going on: Drake has obtained an extraterrestrial parasite - a gummy, writhing black blob - and he's conducting human trials with it.
Having often been critical of the frequently formulaic filmmaking of Marvel movies, it would be disingenuous of me to not appreciate the more freewheeling and slapdash jumble of "Venom." It's not every movie that tries, however awkwardly, to marry ghoulish body horror with a goofball buddy comedy that happens to take place in the same body. Having that feeling of "What the hell is this thing?" is an underrated quality in movies - good or bad ones - and it's even more captivating when the movie, itself, seems to have thrown up its hands in exasperation. It's an incoherent mess of tones, acting styles and visual effects.
What makes Ruben Fleischer's first installment in the Sony universe of Marvel characters such an oddity is that it seems perpetually unsure of just how far it wants to teeter into ridiculousness. "Venom," starring Tom Hardy as a TV investigative journalist whose body is invaded by an alien organism, is a destabilizing mix of intentional and unintentional comedy that for better and worse returns the superhero movie to its natural state: camp.
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