Venom wasn't entirely toxic... just mostly

When they announced that a live-action Venom movie was in the works, starring Tom Hardy as Eddie Brock and rumored to be on the Deadpool bandwagon of being R-rated... I got my hopes up. They even had talks of including Tom Holland's Peter Parker into the movie, which would have been even cooler to see Spider-Man in an R-rated movie.

Of course, the studios pussied out immediately and turned this Spider-Man spin-off into a sci-fi CGI fest. They changed it from New York to San Francisco, and right off the bat, we get flooded with extremely liberal sentiments that make you roll your eyes, knowing there was at least a slight push at some garbage agenda, but we'll move past that. If we can...

Tom Hardy is a great actor. He's awesome in "Bronson" and "Dark Knight Rises", and in this one, he still puts forth a great effort. Too bad most of the movie is mindless drivel that comes as no surprise to anyone who has watched the trailer for the movie. As always, they give the whole movie away, and nothing comes as a surprise.

So much CGI, and most of it looks pretty cheesy. I'd seen a lot of people compare it to "Upgrade", starring Tom Hardy lookalike Logan Marshall Green. Unlike this PG-13 bastardization of a man getting enhanced with an alien parasite, Upgrade featured a man getting enhanced with a technological implant, and it was a bloody R-rated romp.

We don't get anything new here. It's somewhat watchable, but mostly predictable superhero shit that seems to be holding a lot back. Stan Lee has a cameo, but nothing else seems very Marvel about it otherwise. Tom Hardy keeps it from being a total flop, but it's still some overblown kiddie shit, for the most part. Could have been waaaaaaay better.