‘Venom: The Last Dance’ Review: Tom Hardy and His Alien Entity Go Full Buddy Movie in a Finale That Shoots the Works, Because Why Not?
variety.comOwen Gleiberman Chief Film Critic “Venom: The Last Dance” is the third and final entry in the Marvel movie series about a helmet-headed alien with scary teeth and Gene Simmons’ tongue who fuses with a mumbly overpaid Method actor.
Or something like that. Since this is the grand finale, the film’s director, Kelly Marcel (who co-scripted the previous two “Venom” installments and wrote this one, now making her debut behind the camera as well), may have felt a certain lack of restraint.
As you watch “The Last Dance,” the film obliterates any distinction between shooting the works and jumping the shark and just saying, “WTF, let’s do it!” By the time of the second entry in the series, “Venom: Let There Be Carnage” (2021), the relationship between the alien entity and its host body, the fallen investigative journalist Eddie Brock (Tom Hardy), who together add up to Venom, had settled into a comfortable wisecracking second-tier-superhero groove. “Venom: The Last Dance” follows up on that by going full buddy movie, with Hardy’s zonked, marble-mouthed Eddie as the disgruntled straight man and the alien now razzing him like the voice of Darth Vader on happy pills.
Or maybe it’s just that the alien, with those basso stentorian tones, knows how to party. He gets all the good lines, as if he’d been placed on earth to one-up his host body.
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