It started what seemed like a 90s-2000s superhero movie—incredible action scenes, with really cool special FX just for the heck of it. Something like 2003's Underworld with Kate Beckinsale comes to mind—style over substance. I wasn’t crazy about this.
I’ve said this in my other Venom reviews for parts 1 and 2, which date back to 2018; I don’t know if it’s Tom Hardy’s accent because he is playing Venom and Eddie Brock, but I still can’t fully understand what he’s saying at times, especially when he's playing Venom. It's better in this 3rd chapter but not perfect.
Interesting actors to see in this movie were Chiwetel Ejiofor and Rhys Ifans. Both were previously in Marvel movies, where they played different characters. Rhys Ifans played the Lizard in Andrew Garfield's Spider-Man, and Chiwetel Ejiofor was Baron Mordo in Doctor Strange. Funny enough, after I came home from Venom 3, I wanted to watch something non-violent while preparing dinner, and I watched Tick Tick Boom on Netflix with Andrew Garfield.
The film is a road trip movie.
Juno Temple, who plays Dr. Payne, a scientist with a troubled past, and Martin Moon, played by Rhys Ifans, and his quirky family, alongside Venom & Eddie, were the heart/laughs of the movie. The ones you root for. It was predictable that Dr. Payne and Mr. Moon would get in trouble, and Venom would have to save them.
The Knull story, another universe-ending character, was quickly explained, which was ok because I wanted to spend more time with Venom & Eddie Brock. The comedy with the two aforementioned leads doesn’t often hit, but they are charming together.
The center of Venom 3 was the relationship between Eddie and Venom. The two chat about their time together and having to part ways so that Knull(the big bad) doesn’t get the codex(which our anti-heroes possess). Knull attaining the codex can set him free to destroy the symbiotes who imprisoned him.
It was fun to see Ms. Chen, the Asian woman in the grocery stores, in the first two films. She and Venom have a dance number that made me smile. In the third act, the other symbiotes attaching themselves to supporting characters and fighting Knull's monster was cool.
I thought that near the end, one of the symbiotes in the military lab would attach itself to Chiwetel Ejiofor’s character and change his mind about the alien species, but he was killed off.
Stephen Graham, who’s so great at being a nefarious villain, wasn’t used very much here. But I like it when producers and directors bring back the cast from previous movies in a series like the Venom trilogy to fill out story beats. By comparison, that's what made the MCU so attractive—a series of connected films.
By the end, we are left to believe that Venom is dead, Eddie lives, and there’s a new symbiote with Dr. Payne. The after-credit scene seems to show a leftover residual piece of Venom that was hinted at at the beginning of the movie; it takes over a waterbug crawling around the Area 51 wreckage, where Venom sacrifices himself to stop the creatures who were chasing our main characters for the codex.
Talking about the returning cast and production, Andy Serkis plays Knull. He directed the second part, and director Kelly Marcel has been involved with the Venom series from the beginning as a writer, which, once again, if a team of people work well together, keep them together.
Tom Hardy as Venom. As I said, he’s the straight man. Venom is the funny, violent one, and a lot of the time, Eddie is just reacting. But in this one, they have a history together and are more comfortable with one another. That comes across in their conversations.
I had fun with this, and it’s a good end to the series. This was a 6.8 out of 10 for me.
The budget for the film was $120 million, with marketing(according to Google)$300 million. The worldwide box office was over $478 million, so the movie made its money back and then some.
Movie pundit John Campea had a great video on his channel regarding whether Spider-Man less movies have made money. Those six movies are The Venom trilogy, Morbius, Madame Web, and Kraven. Of the six, Madame Web and Kraven have lost, Sony(the parent company making these movies)money. The Venom trilogy and Morbius movies have made money.
According to this article in Variety from December 2024, Sony Pictures is still considering releasing these Spider-Man spin-offs but acknowledges that they will be more selective of which related characters get a movie.
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