Venom: The Last Dance is the final film in the trilogy led by Tom Hardy as Eddie Brock. The series followed their epic bromance and the film does its best to reminisce and bring in the nostalgia of the last few years, with montages and flashbacks. But the hero of the film remains Venom’s humour. As the last film, the filmmakers did seems to have let loose and added in some hilarious bits that aren’t necessary for the plot but they don’t do much harm to the characters. While the plot does get a bit repetitive and messy, the fan service and the nostalgia keep you going.
The film begins with right after the end of Avengers: Endgame. Eddie had taken a short trip along side everyone else to the MCU when Dr Strange’s spell goes wrong. Venom 3 begins with Eddie and Venom in the MCU and interacting with the bartender, finding out about what Thanos did and how Aliens are. When the gate again both are sent back to their universe, where they are on a vacation in Mexico. However, things don’t end well when Eddie finds out he is being hunted down by the police.
Not willing to live as a fugitive, the two decide to go to New York to clear their name by blackmailing a judge, leaving a bunch of people dead on the way. Meanwhile, Knull on his planet finds out about the codex that can serve as a key to his prison and sends his symbiote hunter daughters to kill Venom. In return he promises them freedom. On his way to New York, Venom and Eddie encounter a hunter and realise their time is up. But it not just the symbiote hunter but also the US Army against him.
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The Army hopes to capture all the symbiotes to learn about them in a hidden lab close to Area 51. They are still after Eddie and Venom, possibly the eighth symbiote they have their eyes on with seven already in their lab. With more people/creatures hunting them Eddie becomes desperate to get to New York and straighten things out, but as things do with the duo, it doesn’t end well for either one of them. With a run time of 2 hours, the film’s story is pretty simple. Since the beginning, the film looms with the idea of an ending and how the codex needs to be hidden from Knull, and is only possible when one of them dies.
At this point, the film isn’t about if they are going to die, but more about which one of them will end up dead. However, the humour and bromance between the two character keeps the film from feeling repetitive. Through out the run time, it does feel odd and messy for Eddie and Venom to just be hopping from one scene to another, interacting with random characters. There are many awkward moments and scenes that seem unruly and unnecessary for the runtime but without it the film would be too shot for a feature. The main plot line and the characters remain kind of similar, another aline/symbiote like creator coming to kill Venom and the putting the two in a life or death situation. The screenplay is filled with fan service for the comics fans as Venom takes over many life forms from a horse as showing in the trailer to a frog and much more.
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Tom Hardy has always been fun to watch as Eddie/Venom and the third installment isn’t any different. The emotional aspect of the film remains to a minimum but the makers have gone heavy on the nostalgia factor with montages, reminding fans of their journey in hopes to evoke some serious sad emotions. Unfortunately, the makers did not cast someone to play Knull and kept the character in a CGI, adding more mystery around what’s next for the series and the villain.
Overall, Venom The Last Dance remains true to its nonsensical franchise and offers much fun and action. But the ending feels too abrupt and comes off like more of a joke since it dismisses the purpose of the whole film.
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