Hey Film Nerds!
Treated by daughter to the final Sony Venom film staring Tom Hardy as Eddie Brock/Venom for her birthday.
The Last Dance is the last outing for Tom Hardy as the character. Although if Venom goes to the MCU with the aid of the piece of Venom that was left behind, then he may come back to voice Venom.
The film starts off in the MCU in the cut scene from Spiderman - No Way Home.
Eddie and Venom get zapped back to his own universe where they are immediately being hunted by Rex Strickland (played by Chiwetel Ejiofor). A soldier working with Area 51 which is holding Patrick Mulligan (Stephen Graham). He survived the ending of Venom 2. Strickland is also holding other symbiotes who are running away from Knull. He's the creator of the symbiotes who have imprisoned him to stop him destroying the Universe.
Knull has sent creatures called Xenophage across the universes to find a Codex. This can free Knull from his prison and is created when a symbiote resurrects a host. Venom resurrected Eddie in the first film.
As Eddie and Venom make their way to New York where Eddie believes a judge Eddie knows can help him with the trouble they are in, they come across a hippy family going to Area 51. The family is led by Martin (played by Rhys Ifans).
Eventually everyone ends up at Area 51 for a showdown with the Xenophage.
Overall - This is probably my favourite of the Venom films as it had some laugh out moments and went fast. The interaction with Eddie and Venom was the best so far and packed and emotional punch with it being the last film with the two.
The acting and the action scenes were well done and had more than previous movies but still could have had more action.
As much as I like the Venom films and this one, I still think there has been a missed opportunity to not introduce a Spiderman. I feel it would have been good in this film to have Andrew Garfield's Spiderman show up and help Venom at the end.
It's also weird they have used actors who have been in the Spiderman and Marvel films before. Rhys Ifans as Martin was weird when he was the Lizard in the Amazing Spiderman and No Way Home.
Plus Chiwetel playing a soldier when he's played Baron Mordo in the Doctor Strange films.
There also wasn't much connection with the MCU, other than the first scene. The post credit scenes didn't connect with the MCU either which was disappointing.
Bels Score - 9/10
My Score - 8.5/10
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