Review: Venom: The Last Dance [2024] – Tom Hardy, Chiwetel Ejiofor, Juno Temple

Venom: The Last Dance should be the final nail in Sony’s SpiderVerse universe’s coffin. Sadly, it won’t be because Tom Hardy‘s performance is making them money.

Tom Hardy’s performance as Venom is too good. And that’s the problem here. From the first movie all the way to Carnage, the franchise was slow going bad. But with Madame Web, and now The Last Dance, it’s obvious that Sony has no idea what’s going on, and they should just stop. Sadly, they won’t as long as they’re making money. Let me explain.

Venom 3 is not as bad as Madame Web. Nothing can be as bad as that one. However, The Last Dance cancels and contradicts everything built during the first two movies, as well as the cross over in the post credit scene of No Way Home.

Where is Eddie Brock’s relationship with his Ex that we spent two movies developing? That tease about Detective Mulligan at the end of the second movie? Dead! The lovable Mrs. Chen? Let’s just drag her to Vegas for absolutely no reason or logic.

In addition, instead of culminating a franchise with Eddie and Venom working on their relationship all the way to “comic book accuracy”, let’s instead forget all of that, and force a “Thanos Threat Level” out of nowhere with Knull.

To be honest, the whole movie didn’t make any sense. Other than contradicting the franchise’s own logic, the movie contradicts its own logic that it builds during its own runtime, with its credits scene: Knull needs THE codex to escape. There’s no codex, but Knull espaces anyway? Lol. What’s the point?

Should you watch it?

Wait for streaming, then watch it while you’re doing laundry or “chilling in bed” just for the buddy comedy between Eddie Brock & Venom. Sony should be sued for what it’s doing to some of the greatest Marvel characters.

Where can I watch it?

Venom: The Last Dance is now playing in theaters.