The Sane Lunatic

All good things end, and this movie marks the final curtain of Tom Hardy playing Venom, the iconic anti-hero character from the Spider-Man comic universe. The final instalment of this trilogy is titled "Venom: The Last Dance", and that's pretty much what it is — one last song to end a fun night. Despite the ongoing struggles with interconnecting storylines between different intellectual properties across Sony and Marvel (aka Disney), the Venom saga finds itself infected with the same virus of lazy storywriting with another lame attempt at recreating the kind of synergy achieved in the core Avengers films. As the finale to a rather well-received trilogy that debuted in 2018, this one needed a strong story but all the elements feel discordant. There is little to tie it all together and the only saving grace for the movie is the performance of Tom Hardy as both Eddie Brock and Venom (yes, he delivers the voice of the bombastic symbiote himself which gets punched up for that ...