Venom: The good and the bad

Venom (2018) | Credit: Sony Pictures

The Bad: The predictable story

When the movie starts, you see a happy Eddie Brock with his fiancé.  Eddie later gets a job going after someone he deemed to be a bad guy. His fiancé warned him to not push the guy too hard. As soon as she said that, I knew where this was going. She was going to leave him and that would start Eddie’s downward spiral. Sadly, this was just the beginning of the predictable movie.

There were people in this movie that you knew would die as soon as you saw them on screen. They’d have a quick cameo to establish a bond between them and Eddie. It was just enough to give the audience a sad feeling when you see them tortured or killed, because you knew these moments were coming they fell flat.

It’s things like this that made the movie lose points. When you can see things coming a mile away it takes away from the suspense of what you’re watching. When Captain America and Tony Stark didn’t die in Avengers: Infinity War, people were shocked. Had they both died everyone would have rolled their eyes and said, “I told you so.”