Venom: Habrá matanza

Una película que se hizo solo por una escena después de los créditos y dinero... En Hollywood hay directores capaces con visión de futuro, prometedoras estrellas emergentes, artesanos normales y corrientes, y luego rutinarios por debajo de la media que no son realmente buenos, pero que no disculpan a los estudios. Y Andy Serkis pertenece ahora a este último grupo. Venom 2 es una película de cómic completamente formulista que no disfrutas mucho, debido al rancio guión, las aburridas actuaciones y el caótico montaje. Todo está obviamente condicionado por la calificación PG-13, y muchas veces durante la película ni siquiera estás seguro de cómo acabó realmente tal o cual personaje, porque todo está editado de forma tan «segura» que no te enteras de nada. Y la comedia es infantil en todo momento. No puedo imaginar que todos los creadores implicados se hayan metido en esto por otra razón que no sea un sueldo. (19.10.2021)

Esta segunda parte va más del monstruo digital que de Tom Hardy. Además, son dos monstruos digitales que se verían igual en una película en blanco y negro. Por otro lado, Venom «por su cuenta» entretiene y su visita a la fiesta es uno de los mejores momentos. No hay mucho que temer de los malos, sus motivaciones están fuera de lugar y sus interacciones con el entorno resultan frívolas. Como más cosas en una película. Para el oscuro y sobrecargado festival digital final, no me importaba quién lanzaba a quién y dónde y qué caía sobre quién. Por lo demás, Hardy en moto es genial, y Michelle Williams... Michelle Williams! Añade el único y muy necesario elemento estético. (13.10.2021)

If I were to write that the Venom 2 was as uninteresting and unimaginative as the first one, I'd be bullshitting, because I don't remember anything from the first. But it's certainly uninteresting and uninspired. Tom Hardy's cool, so is Woody Harrelson. Michelle Williams and Naomie Harris are solid actresses, but they're given little space. In fact, everything has a little space. Venom isn't even a hundred minutes long, and unfortunately a good third of the running time is taken up by weird sitcom outtakes about Eddie Brock and Venom's cohabitation, where the film tries to pretend it's a variation on The Odd Couple, only with an alien. Occasionally, the film remembers that it has a serial killer and his symbiotic friend in there, so it skips to a random action scene and try to pretend to be horror. For an hour, nothing interesting actually happens except for Venom and Brock's arguments mixed with Harrelson's overacting (you can’t play a deranged serial killer in such a small space in any other way), only to end with a final clash with a lot of pretty solid visual effects and an unexpectedly solid length. And then the end. I won't remember any of it in a week. Again. (13.10.2021)

Venom as a pro-migrant agitator and declared bisexual is the surprising revelation of this sequel. Nevertheless, Let There Be Carnage is a tiny bit better than part one. It passes by nicely and is funny in its silly way and its running time is short. As if Serkis simply cut the boring and unfunny bits out. Some of the twists and revelations appear very farfetched and all-of-a-sudden. Stress is on the marital quarrels of the continuously weirdly acting Hardy along with Venom, and all the other things surrounding this just happen to happen, god knows how. It lacks any logic. And it would just be a waste of time to go into analysis of degradation when compared to the source material. P.S.: Harrelson spends his time strangely overacting; this role is acutely uncomfortable for him. (27.11.2021)

Venom 2 is such a disappointment that I feel like giving it 2 stars, but that would be biased, so a neutral 3 with a bitter taste in my mouth and an exclamation point for next time. Venom was a pleasant surprise, maybe because Ruben Fleischer was in charge of it, and he was able to handle the humour (Zombieland) and the action (Gangster Squad). Unfortunately, the sequel is directed by Andy Serkis (who has only done Mowgli) and suddenly the humour and action stops working. Tom Hardy is surprisingly unlikeable in this film and I didn’t enjoy his role at all, he's not funny or interesting, he doesn't show anything in action, in short a useless, uninteresting and boring character, and Woody Harrelson, whom I generally like, also didn't show much of anything – their dialogue exchanges are uninteresting and I didn't enjoy listening to them at all, I silently remembered the dialogue from Bond, yes, a strange comparison, but when they give dialogue clashes between two great actors, let me feel the intense darkness in the air, not these childish exchanges. Humour could have been a strong point, but I only laughed once in the whole film and that was with Venom at the disco, the rest is infantile and you don’t even smile. Nobody laughed at all in the cinema, so it's not just me. The Gore is missing of course, but I counted on it. The visuals and the effects are inoffensive, but definitely not breathtaking. Shortening the film to 90 minutes hurts the the film because it practically has no story and everything is rushed. On the other hand, if ti was two hours long, I probably wouldn’t last, because Venom 2 is not very entertaining. And now about the action. There are two short action scenes that end before they even start and then a half hour finale that I won't tell you anything about because I was asleep with boredom, so I'll have to recap that sometime. Anyway, going into Venom thinking it was a comic book action flick and leaving as bored and frazzled as a two-hour Drama, I didn't expect that in the slightest. Ironically, the post-credit scene is better than the movie itself. Story 2/5, Action 3/5, Humor 2/5, Violence 0/5, Fun 3/5 Music 3/5, Visuals 4/5, Atmosphere 3/5, Suspense 2/5, Emotion 1/5, Actors 3/5. 5/10. (16.10.2021)